> I'm afraid I won't be of much help as our situations are very > different. My 755 runs ONLY Debian. No DOS, no Windows, no emulators, > just Debian.
Mine is supposedly just debian. But I would like the hibernate to work, which needs a dos partition. I originally formatted without room for this, then added it when I found out that the hardware would hibernate (dump ram & state to hard disk) after an hour of sleep > I haven't worried about APM much. The main use for the Thinkpad has > been when I'm sitting in a Motel room and want to check email or do > some light work, so, when I need to use it it's almost always plugged > in. Mine will rarely (at most :) be used other than plugged in. It's there so that I can X into my machine at night. > Plus, we've had this 755 for a couple of years now and I think the > battery has quit accepting a charge. Even when it's powered down the > battery will not recharge. The battery status LED is always solid > orange and the battery charging LED never comes on. Mine quit taking charges soon as I stripped the Gates virus off of it . . . but continued to work off the old charge for a while. But since it's position will be on my lap, the charge would be nice for when the cord gets knocked out :) > | 2) if you still have the dark side, how big should the thinkpad > | directory be? mine is just shy of 1.4M, or 97% of a dos floppy. > | however, I get errors reporting missing windows, and most of the dos > | versions of utilities seem to be missing. > I'm afraid you've lost me on this one. I don't even know what the > "dark side" is, other than a powerful evil force permeating our > universe? :) oops, wrong list for that reference :) The gates virus, aka windows, was my reference. > | 3) is there anything funny about ppp I should know? > This depends on the modem you use. We use a MegaHertz combo > Ethernet/Modem card. It is well supported by the PCMCIA stuff and I > didn't have any problem at all setting it up to run SLIP or PPP. a compaq pcmcia. no problem with minicom, but i just haven't been able to get PPP to work. thanks rick -- These opinions will not be those of ISU until it pays my retainer.
