Today I have installed fedora core 4 on my ibm laptop. Most was working fine out of the box. I am having some problems finding utlities, but the command line works fine.

I was having some issues with my wireless network, but these are resolved now. Since this can be an issue for others as well I do want to share my experience with you.

The first thing you need to do is find a good website, oke try this one for instance:
http://www.niemueller.de/wiki/?ThinkpadT41pWithFC3

When following this guideline there was an issue with uudecode. This is not installed per default in fedora. Therefore you need to install these libraries. I found the right command on another website:

yum install sharutils

the website is: (beware, tough to read for some of us)
http://wiki.nothing.sh/page/ThinkPad/Fedora%20Core%204

Then you probably know that your laptop has a small light for wireless activity. This can be turned on by issuing the following command before you run make:

export COPTS="$COPTS -DSOFTLED"

Found that on the website:
http://vsharma.net/thinkpad-t41p-fedora-core1/

Thats all, run make and make install and connect to your network.