On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 10:10:22AM +0200, Mikael Cardell wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonne) writes: > > > I have a very brief question. I'm not that familiar at all with -snip- > I have used Debian on a Thinkpad 570 and its replacement the Thinkpad > X20, both ultrathin models with no diskette drive, no CD drive or > extra stuff at all. The X20 is slightly lighter and has a smaller > screen, but keeps the resolution of 1024x768.
i have an X20 and run debian on it. very nice machine. i picked up the ultrabase which allows you a bay to slide in a CD or CDRW, both of which i've got working. the base also comes with a built in floppy if you need that. i also have a vaio 505 but prefer the X20. the latter has a built in video port which i use often for presentations via an lcd. with the vaio one needs to carry a port replicator to do this, which kinda defeats the "lightweight" aspect of the machine. X20 also has much better battery life than the vaio. > > I like the integrated NIC (Intel EtherExpress Pro, I believe) on the > X20 and I believe that the modem on the X20 might be a real one, not a > WinModem. I haven't used it, so I don't really know or care anymore, > but my current dmesg (run under OpenBSD on the X20) says: i think there are two different models of the X20 that come witn an integrated NIC/modem combo. one (Mikael's) comes with the xircom modem, which i believe one could get to work, but the other model (mine a 226-36U) comes with a winmodem which i couldn't get working, although the network side of the combo works fine. i'll probably get a pcmia card shortly to get the modem going for upcoming travel. for now it relies on a network link. -- Sergio J. Rey http://typhoon.sdsu.edu/rey.html "As a competitor, we might be better off if they shipped it." - Sun Microsystems's James Gosling on Windows NT 5.0
