5 Feb 2008 gilbou   » (Journeyer)

im pissed off. really. i got an ibm thinkpad x30. works fine under netbsd. i can put a YEARS old netbsd or openbsd or whatever on this machine, and everything works. since last week i have tried on this machine : debian 4.0 etch, lenny and i just finished install of unstable. no network. nothing. the ethernet plug is there, lighted, and dhclient fails and never gets any answer. wifi doesnt work either. how can a netbsd years old have everything to work from this piece of crap, and the latest 2.6.22-3 kernel and debian unstable cant even get a fscking dhclient to work ? it's the third time i try to install debian on this machine and it either gets stuck on the login screen of gnome because the orinoco drivers gets nuts (debian lenny, debian etch) or the eth1 gets no answer from the dhcp, while another box on etch 4.0 much more recent (asus n2m32 sli...) works fine. i really hate, hate this. i cant believe this crap recent kernel is unable to have this machine work on default install. been searching for over an hour with google, there's nothing about the thinkpad x30 having problems with debian anywhere. ethernet is intel 82801CAM (ICH3) PRO/100 VE (LOM) (rev 42). this is why i hate linux, and love debian at the same time. debian is wonderful at work, we just put it everywhere. but this piece of crap keeps burning me when any several years old or the latest snapshot of any bsd just works fine with no config, no kernel compilation out of the box. and for the third time tomorrow i guess i will have no choice but to remove debian and get back to bsd. i feel like killing penguins at close range with great violence and blood everywhere.

searching again and again i found people with the same problem
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-182618.html
http://www.webservertalk.com/archive99-2007-6-1910758.html

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