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IBM/Lenovo

ThinkPad

Model Version:	Harware Support:								Remark:
	Video:	Sound:	Ethernet:	Wireless:	Bluetooth:	Power Management:	Modem:	Other:
IBM ThinkPad 380ED	NA	NA	NA	NA	No	NA	NA	NA
IBM ThinkPad T21	Yes*	Yes	Yes	NA	NA	Yes*	NA	NA	See below
IBM ThinkPad T23	Yes	Yes	Yes	NA	NA	Yes	NA	NA
IBM ThinkPad T42	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	NA	Yes	NA	NA
IBM ThinkPad T60	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	NA
IBM ThinkPad T60p	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	ThinkFinger
IBM ThinkPad T61	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes*	NA	Yes	NA
IBM Thinkpad T61p	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	NA
IBM ThinkPad X23	Yes	Yes	Yes	NA	NA	Yes	NA	NA
IBM ThinkPad X60s	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	NA	NA
Lenovo ThinkPad X61s	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	NA	SD slot
Lenovo ThinkPad R60	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	NA	NA
Lenovo 3000 N200	Yes	Yes*	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes*	NA	NA	See Below
IBM ThinkPad R50,R52	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	NA	Yes	Yes	Infrared*
Lenovo ThinkPad X200	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	NA	NA
Lenovo IdeaPad S10	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes*	NA	Yes	NA	NA
Lenovo ThinkPad T400	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	NA	NA
Lenovo ThinkPad T400s	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	NA	NA
Lenovo ThinkPad T420	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Not Tested	Yes*	NA	NA
Lenovo ThinkPad T420s	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	NA	Card Reader	See below
Lenovo ThinkPad T500	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Not Tested	Yes	NA	NA
Lenovo ThinkPad T520	Yes	Yes	Yes	Not Tested	Not Tested	Yes	NA	NA
Lenovo ThinkPad T530	Yes	Yes	Yes	Not Tested	Not Tested	Not Tested	NA	NA
Lenovo ThinkPad E420s	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Not Tested	Yes	NA
Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E430	Yes	Yes	Yes*	Yes*	Not Tested	Yes	NA	SDCard (yes)
Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E530	Yes	Yes	Yes*	Yes*	Yes	Yes	NA	SDCard (yes)/Finger Print(Not tested)

Special Notes (*):

IBM ThinkPad T21

• Video:
  • Incapable of running DRM at 1024x768 and 24-bit color due to 8 MB VRAM. Must drop color or resolution to get DRM.
  • For whatever reason, external VGA output (for an external monitor) was disabled. This was fixed by doing this:
    • echo 1 > /proc/acpi/video/VID/DOS

Lenovo Thinkpad T61

• Wireless:
  • While both the iwl3945 and ipw3956 drivers work, the iwl3956 driver provides better transfer speeds, and a working wifi LED activity light.

Lenovo 3000 N200

• Sound:
  • You may have to append options snd_hda_intel model=lenovo to /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf for sound to work.

IBM ThinkPad R50,R52

• Infrared:
  • Still not tested

IBM ThinkPad R52

• USB Internet Tethering
  • Inbound inet via usb0 works. # dhcpcd usb0

Lenovo IdeaPad S10

• Wireless :
  • You should install broadcom wl driver. See: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Broadcom_BCM4312

Lenovo ThinkPad T420

• Power Management
  • TP_smapi is not currently supported.

Lenovo ThinkPad T420s

Multi-touch trackpad works along with scrolling and gestures, just install xf86-input-synaptics with pacman.

For more info on the installation process check here

Lenovo ThinkPad E430

• Ethernet:
  • Default card is a Realtek RTL8111/8168B. Thus the r8168 module should be used.
• Wireless
  • r8192ce can be moody. So far best fix is to disable firmware low power state (fwlps=0).
• SD Card

As of 3.8 3rd party module is un-needed, device will be accessable @ /dev/mmcX

**To make SD Card slot work, rts5229 is needed. See Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E430 for more info.

• Power Management
  • tp_smapi is not supported, but normal power management may be achieved in the usual ways.