On 28 Jan 1998, John Goerzen wrote: > Hi, > > I just got a new IBM thinkpad yesterday, along with a Linksys Combo > PCMCIA ethercard (NE2000-compat).
Congrats ;-) <horror story cut> > In all, it took several hours of work by a competant hacker (me <g>) > but a novice would probably not be able to get it working. I'm looking forward to the challange ;-) On a more serious note I must second John's opinion about the PC-card situation in the various incarnations of Debian. I would further venture to add that it might be a sensible move to have a few debian-developers take a good look at the special needs of the laptop-linux community. APM-utils/X settings for LCD panels/PC-card stuff on the hardware side and 'peculiarities' on the software side such as wanting to install _onto_ an external 2Gb SCSI unit connected to your PCMCIA port. Which bootfloppy takes care of that then !?! Linux is a viable option for laptops, but getting your shleptop configured isn't for the uninitiated. It would be a real feather in Debian's cap to come 'ready-to-run-on-laptops'(tm). regards, avi bercovich -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
