Lenovo 3000 N500

does not work on LENOVO 3000 N500 4233-3AG, BIOS 1.6 can not even boot live cd, boot hangs, error message Starting bluetooth … all dead, tried with BT switch ON/OFF - NADA! in windoze, everything works like charm.

The laptop works well for me (the volume control buttons don't work though). But has anyone experienced the harddrive clicking sometimes as much as every 15-20 seconds? This is concerning me.

Everything worked flawlessly out of the box for me, running ubuntu 9.04 on the 3000 n500. Even wireless works extremely well (with intel wireless driver), much better than under vista where I had problems. Fn buttons and trackpad work too, and the CPU which used to whine under vista is silent in ubuntu. I'm extremely satisfied!

forgot few things:
improper touchpad:
8.10: very strange speed. have to raise it to max to make it usable but it is really annoying that way… i just dont get a proper sensitivity for it.
9.04 it's hard to not click always on it when e.g. scrolling a webpage. it's not really controllable how double-clicks works and double-click–>move-window is a pain in the as5 and not really adjustable. and there are sometimes malfunctions, e.g. right clicks instead of normal click,…

the n500 3000 (the one i own) is really made for vista. it runs very good on xp but there you can't disable the beeps except muting sound completely. it runs very smooth on vista. win7 is the same crap but it should also work fine with it i think.
some problems are known bugs, others caused by bad drivers (intel gfx) but all in all it doesnt really run out of the box with ubuntu. it runs, but surely not perfect and i still try to fix some issues.

perhaps i'll try other distributions on it..

i own n500 3000 (4233-5fg). with (x)ubuntu 9.04 there are several problems.
- can't really disable beep when plugging in ac adapter
- can't disable battery warning beep
(tried to blacklist almost everything)
- adjusting brightness not working properly: it doesn't save settings and is almost too bright
- adjusting brightness also not working perfect via hotkeys. instead of 11 choices there are only 5-6
- sound volume: you can't hear anything until half volume, the upper half of the volume then raises it very quick
- intel graphic is not working correct. e.g. you have to force adobe flash player to use hardware via a small config
- showing battery status not working correct. with xp/vista it is +4 hours. with ubuntu 9.04 its perhaps 2h30m max, tried several tools and each showed something else around 2-2,5 hours. on the other hand, time doesn't fly. the real duration with a battery is more than these 2,5 hours. just wrecked up. also it shows about 6 hours to load an empty battery…

everything works perfectly out of the box. great thing for linux user. :)

Hi,

I've installed an ubuntu 9.04 and the suspend and hibarnate don't work.

Hi,

Ubuntu 8.10 is working really fine on my N500 exept the 56K modem. Has anyone experiences with installing the modem?

It cost me $130 to put in a dual core cpu and upgrade the memory to 4 GB on the N500, so consider that, the SL500 has the dual core cpu bigger hard drive and 1 GB of memory more - plus a cool fingerprint thing.

CPU flags indicate that it doesn't support virtualization at the core level. Pity

Anyone get the integrated camera to work? Could you do an lsmod and see what driver you're using for it? Thanks.

(I have a 3000 N500 also labeled “Type 4233-63U” on bottom. Fedora 10 is working nice now that I got broadcom-wl from rpmfusion.net for the wireless card).

My laptop works except wifi - what is the secret of getting the wifi to work? Also I can't seem to run 3D acceleration in video driver - any hints?

Thanks!

David

Sound through HDMI seems to be impossible in ubuntu 8.10 and 9.04.

Hi,
has anyone expierence with Fedora running on the N500 NS75PGE model? I assume that I am fine when the distro uses a 2.6.27 kernel or above? Cause Fedora 10 uses the 2.6.27.5 kernel.

Thanks,
Christian “Jenope” Brenner

In my experience, and I wrote the previous comment hours before I ended up installing back Winxp; is that there are random crashes all the time. No functioning of LAN wireless and touchpad, and I did not even test the web cam. It is not something due to not pressing a button on the computer, the hardware was not properly detected. I would have leave it installed anyway, if not for the crashes. Such a pity!

Ubuntu works for me as aswell, with video in Skype in addition to the Xfce desktop environment.

system Stupefactions

Lenovo 3000 N500 4233-54U

Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU T3400 @ 2.16GHz

Memory: 2G or (2048MB)

SDA: 250GB

topgun17@B707:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 15
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU T3400 @ 2.16GHz
stepping : 13
cpu MHz : 1000.000
cache size : 1024 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 0
cpu cores : 2
apicid : 0
initial apicid : 0
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 10
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts pni monitor ds_cpl est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
bogomips : 4322.42
clflush size : 64
power management:

processor : 1
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 15
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU T3400 @ 2.16GHz
stepping : 13
cpu MHz : 1000.000
cache size : 1024 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 1
cpu cores : 2
apicid : 1
initial apicid : 1
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 10
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts pni monitor ds_cpl est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
bogomips : 4322.55
clflush size : 64
power management:

Ubuntu 8.10 works fine on my N500. No problems at all with webcam, wifi or card reader. Volume control buttons and other shortcuts on the keyboard didn't work out of the box but that was easily fixed under the keyboard shortcuts setting.

All hardware works “Out Of the Box” with Ubuntu 8.10 intrepid ibex, would highly recommend.

I'm having freezes as well, but it seems to have started after I compiles my custom kernel on Slackware 12.1. Everything else seems to work out-of-the-box except:
1) camera
2) wlan – haven't tried it!

Has anyone made an discoveries on the lockups?

installed 8.10 yesterday, really ootb, everything works, feels like OEM nearly, even “the sensor keys” work - a great experience really!

Before that I tried openSuse 11.1. and got lots of problems with sounds, powermangement, Xorg and more.

The only thing missing is the rotation feature within the display control panel. I'm using an second 24” pivot display for editing portrait formated fotos.

Hardware: Lenovo 3000 N 500, Celeron M 575@2 Ghz and 2 GB RAM, Onboard Video

running debian lenny kernel 2.6.26:
everythings fine, except wlan. i'm still working on it but i did't manage it yet.

I totally coincide with Black-sheep. It crashes Randomly. I've installed the last version of the kernel in Ubunto 8.10. No wireless and the touchpad does not work at all. Please e-mail me or post here if anyone solves these problemes. Anyway it is great to find, at least, one result associated with lenovo 3000 n500 and linux. Thanks. -Argentina-

Same results on N500 38G with suse 11.1 / 64 KDE 4 (every thing fine)/ modem not tested

Nothing works for me.

I got the N500 and tryed both Kubuntu 8.10 and ubuntu 8.10
while kubuntu (KDE4.1) runs fast & smoth, ubuntu crashes (freezes) randomly.
on both the touchpad does not work, nor does wireless Lan.

great experience with this laptop under ubuntu or debian; easy instalation, hardware entirely recognized with 8.10 version for ubuntu with last kernel (2.6.27).