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IBM Thinkpad A30p

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IBM Thinkpad A30p

Reviews	Views	Date of last review
1	31291	02-20-2005

Recommended By	Average Price	Average Rating
100% of reviewers	None indicated	None indicated

Description:	Second thinkpad i purchased in iraq. using slack 9.1, everything works, (havent tried the modem.) cpu is a 933 pentium 3 m stepping can be turned off in the bios so it will always run at top speed. threw in a dvd player and an extra 256M ram. thinkpads are tough enough to survive this country and you can get them for 200-800 for a descent system..
Keywords:	A30 A30p Thinkpad
/sbin/lspci output:	00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82830 830 Chipset Host Bridge (rev 02) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82830 830 Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 02) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 01) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #2) (rev 01) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #3) (rev 01) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BAM/CAM PCI Bridge (rev 41) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801CAM ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 01) 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801CAM IDE U100 (rev 01) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM SMBus (rev 01) 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio (rev 01) 00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Modem (rev 01) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 LY 02:00.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev 80) 02:00.1 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev 80) 02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82801CAM (ICH3) PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller (rev 41)

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02-20-2005, 07:10 PM

jiml8

Registered: Sep 2003

Posts: 3,171

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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 0

Kernel (uname -r):
Distribution:	Knoppix 3.3

Knoppix loaded instantly on my A30 with 384 megs RAM. Everything worked, without effort, including wireless networking.

I did not attempt to test the modem. LAN connection worked without effort, as did sound. Video was fine. No issues at all that I could detect.

My Caveo anti-theft pcmcia card is not supported, but I can still enable it and disable it using the motion password. I cannot configure it and it will not shut down/disable linux the way it will windows.

I have been thinking about making this a dual boot linux/XP but I need the XP on the road and I am concerned about potential security issues with a dual boot on the road, if it should be stolen.

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