RE: Laptop and PCMCIA
>From: mike@bcinternet.com[SMTP:mike@bcinternet.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, 19 November, 1996 22:15 PM
>To: Debian Users mailling list
>Subject: Laptop and PCMCIA
>
>
> I'm trying slowy to get my whole office over to Debian <g>, and
>the next machine I'm going to tackle is the TI-Extensa 560CD laptop. Is
>there a page/FAQ for Debian on laptops? Also I'm using a Xircom
>Creditcard Ethernet/28.8 pcmcia card, has anyone had any experience with
>this card? I'd love for it to be recognized just after boot time so I
>could dftp the whole system.
>
> TIA,
> mike...
Sure it will recognize the Xircom just fine, give you its name, and
declare that it is an unsupported card! I found a nice surplus Thomas
Conrad (now a Compaq subsidiary) card that reports itself as an IBM (!)
PCMCIA ethernet card, and it works just fine. See also
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ for lots of good
stuff!
Ciao! DaveW
>
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