Posts Tagged ThinkPad T61 suspend gentoo kernel iwl3945 pm-utils

So recently I got a shiny new laptop in the mail and have been going through the struggles of getting Gentoo to run on it and have everything just work. Well, things didn’t just work without some work, but it’s nearly 100% now. My first issue was getting the WiFi working. Gentoo-sources 2.6.26 worked intermittently, so I needed to try something else. I installed network manager and let it start handling the wifi and magically it started working. For some reason if I let udev at init launch my iwl3945 wifi interface, the card would instantly RFKILL itself. Very frustrating, but at least I have a working wifi card now with 2.6.26 and iwl3945 + network manager. The second issue of course was suspend. What a pain this adventure was. If it wasn’t for fellow Gentoo Developer Joker with an R61 kernel config I would have never gotten suspend working. My initial kernel on resume would simply blink the crescent moon sleep light on my thinkpad and never resume. I assume it was kernel panicking. I used his config and changed it for my wifi card, and now suspend works flawlessly. Note: I’m using pm-utils for suspending. Here’s my .config for anyone who wants it: .config Right now I’m running Gnome, even though I’m not really a fan of it. HAL automounting seem to be working fine which is a plus, just had to emerge gnome-volume-manager with the automount use-flag.