LAPTOP REFURBISHMENT PROGRAM at Free Geek

The Program

In addition, there are some tasks that can be done throughout your time in laptops:

Laptop Recycling
OS installation - A workstation dedicated to loading 2.5" hard drives is available in the Laptop Build area. Drives which have been successfully erased are loaded, one at a time, at that station.
RAM sorting
Shelf organizing

Classes

Verify Instructor on [TheSkedjulnator]

DAY	TIME	LAPTOP MANUFACTURER	INSTRUCTOR
Tuesday	AM	Gateway Team	Dave H (John)
Tuesday	PM	Dell Team and Others Team	E-Beth S
Wednesday	AM	HP/Compaq Team	ALI
Wednesday	PM	Sony Team	Dave H
Thursday	AM	Dell Team	E-Beth S
Thursday	PM	IBM Thinkpad Team	Dave H
Friday	AM	Dell Team	Ali B
Friday	PM	Toshiba Team	E-Beth S
Saturday	AM	Toshiba Team and HP/Compaq Team	E-Beth S
Saturday	PM	No Class Yet	NA

Steps

The laptop program requires a great deal of PC hardware experience, so it is expected that all students have gone through the build program before moving into laptops. Additionally, volunteers are required to take the command line class.

Primarily for data security reasons, but also for educational purposes, the Laptop Instructor Responsibilities require that he or she must be present to work on laptops.

From here, we have some familiar steps:

Laptop Evaluation - Determine if the incoming pizza boxes are full of tasty, fresh goodness or dried and rotting crap.
Laptop Specs - Guidelines for Evaluators on the specs and what needs to be removed or included as systems move through Evaluation.
Laptop Build Checklist - Get your hands dirty with questionably functional laptops. Side effects of this step may include frustration, yelling, belief in demonic forces at work within laptops, and learning all sorts of exciting new things.
Laptop QC Checklist - Double-check the builder's work, keep things clean and standardized, and prepping laptops for their final destination.

Other tasks

What to Bring

We have hand tools to accomplish our task, but over time you may find you want to bring your own. No problem! Label them though, so they don't get lost. Here are some Tool Sources around town.

Info

Here's some supplemental how to information we need to accomplish our tasks.

Thinkpad From FreekiWiki Jump to: navigation, search Contents [hide]

   * 1 general information
         o 1.1 Models
   * 2 Thinkpad 600
   * 3 Thinkpad 600e
   * 4 Thinnkpad T20/T21

[edit] general information

Thinkpad related resources [1] Useful things for linux:[2]

[edit] Models [edit] Thinkpad 600

isa sound issues

modprobe cs4232 io=0x530 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0 mpuio=0x330 mpuirq=5 synthirq=-1 synthio=-1

[edit] Thinkpad 600e

isa sound issues

modprobe cs4232 io=0x530 dma=1 dma2=0 irq=5

[edit] Thinnkpad T20/T21

fan issues

YAY FIXED!

SIMPLE

append:

acpi=force

to the grub boot options.

then:

echo 0x2f 0x07 > /proc/acpi/ibm/ecdump

typing that command and redirecting that output to the embedded control dump (ecdump) file will turn that fan on at it's maximum speed.

Notes

this simple script found here:http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ACPI_fan_control_script and take care of any unnecessary end-user interaction with the fan control. other useful information can be found their as well, about controlling the fan.

links

http://www.thinkwiki.org http://ibm-acpi.sourceforge.net (there is a useful chart with a bunch of ibm information and what ibm_acpi is known to support)

User talk:Manseau