[SOLVED] Installation on a Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E320 (F15)

[mutlu]

Hi everybody!

With the much appreatiated help of this and other forums, I just completed the installation of Fedora on my new TP E320.
II wanna let you know, how you can solve the issues that came with the installation:

First of all: Almost everything worked perfectly out of the box! It's really fast and nice to handle. A little lound, though...

I installed Fedora 15, cause I had an installation medium (USB-Stick) for it laying around. Sorry for not using the current F16... But I hope the following will also help you with F16.

• Card Reader won't work
  Problem: Card reader is detected and shows up in lspci. When you put a SD-Card in, nothing happens. The installed driver was "sdhci".
  Solution: Install Realtek driver "rts_pstor" from the Realtek-Website. To install you need to have some packages:

  yum install kernel-headers kernel-devel gcc

  When you have that, follow the instructions in the Readme-file of Realtek and reboot
• Bluetooth can't be activated
  Problem: Bluetooth-Tool says "Bluetooth is deactivated by hardware-switch". You could say: "Well, turn on the hardware-switch!" But, as far as I know, there is no hardware-switch on the E320...
  Solution: Couldn't find a permanent solution. But it's easy enough to activate bluetooth when you need it. To do so, install rfkill:

  yum install rfkill

  Then use it to unblock the devices:

  rfkill unblock all

  . Repeat this last command everytime you want to use bluetooth.
• Ultranav doesn't work
  Problem: Scrolling doesn't work with the little red nob in the center of the keyboard.
  Solution: Create a file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-thinkpad.conf with the following content:
  

  Section "InputClass"
          Identifier	"Trackpoint Wheel Emulation"
          MatchProduct    "TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint|DualPoint Stick|Synaptics Inc. C$
          MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
          Option          "EmulateWheel"          "true"
          Option          "EmulateWheelButton"    "2"
          Option          "Emulate3Buttons"	"false"
          Option          "XAxisMapping"          "6 7"
          Option          "YAxisMapping"          "4 5"
  EndSection

  Now Reboot and use your UltraNav
• Clicking on the clickpad doesn't work.
  Problem: I can use the touchpad and perform left-clicks by tapping. The emulated mouse-buttons on the bottom of the clickpad don't work, tough.
  Solution: Sorry, I didn't care about it... I read about solutions on the web, so keep trying. My solution is to deactivate the touchpad:

  synclient TouchPadOff=1

  and then to use the UltraNav...

I hope this helps a few of us Have fun!

[silentaug]

Hello!

I just bought a little thinkpad e320 and am having trouble getting red hat or centos on it :-(

I found your post which makes me optimistic but i was wondering if you could share more info.

The machine doesn't have a CD/DVD so i made a USB boot device using the usual method (dd if=path/image_name.iso of=device).

I've adjusted the boot order in the BIOS as well as used F12 to pick the USB to boot from but it doesn't work. I tried disabling the UEFI stuff by making it "Legacy" but still no luck.

So, how do i get RHEL/Centos onto the machine in the first place?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

August

[mutlu]

Hi silentaug,

I've also had trouble with two of my usb-sticks. Both of them were larger than 4GB. I'm not sure if this is just a coincidence, but if you have a 2 or 4 GB stick maybe it's worth trying.

The other idea I have for you is to set the "boot"-flag on the USB-drive:
-> plug-in your usb-drive
-> start gparted
-> choose the usb device (i.e. /dev/sdb)
-> choose "manage flags" in the "partition"-menu
-> set the "boot"-flag
-> apply your changes
-> try to boot from the usb-drive

Setting the boot-flag worked for me, when I had created a Ubuntu-liveusb that wouldn't boot...

Hope this helps
mutlu

edit: disabling UEFI and going back to Legacy was also something I had to do. It helped when I had a bootable USB-drive that would start grub, but then stop and not load the OS.

[silentaug]

Hi mutlu!

Thanks for the fast response!

I set the boot flag with gparted and it definitely made a difference. I burnt the OS on there (in this case rhel 6 from an downloaded iso, using: dd if=path/image_name.iso of=device) and set the boot to legacy and it seems to boot off the usb stick.

But ...

It comes up with "missing operating system."

i suppose i'll try a smaller usb .. but i was wondering if you know - if i get a usb dvd drive does that work on these UEFI systems?

Thanks again for your help ...

August

[mutlu]

Hi silentaug,

I'm not sure I understood correctly: Did you
-> install from USB and then couldn't start the OS from the hard drive
or
-> try to load the installer/live-os from the usb drive and get the error-message?

If it's the second case, I think you simply don't have a working live-usb-drive. You find help creating a centOS-live-usb here:
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey

Tell me if this helps.
Good luck
mutlu

[silentaug]

Hi mutlu,

Yeah it is the latter - cant even boot off the usb stick to install to the hard drive. I'll try those directions as maybe that's all that's wrong (ie just don't have working install source).

Thanks again! I will report back soon.

August[COLOR="Silver"]

---------- Post added at 07:00 AM ---------- Previous post was at 07:00 AM ----------

Hmm, no luck. Now i just get "Boot error."

So i'm confused as to what to do now. How did you get an OS onto your e320? How did you make a USB boot drive? Did you use a USB DVD?

At this point i think i'm gonna see if Lenovo will offer a refund ... or perhaps give the machine to my father-in-law, cause this is too hard :-(

[silentaug]

well thanks again for the help. never got it working off the usb and went for an external dvd. i know, i know - the weak way out :-)

But i'm up and running now.

thanks for the help ... now to get my bluetooth working ;-)