>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >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 > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
