I have been using Linux on various laptops for a while now, but I have mostly used them for mobile diagnostic tool boxes. I am now starting to use one as more of a light weight workstation. I know that there are people that use their laptops a lot and I hope somebody can answer a few questions. So far my attempts at googling for an answer have lead to lots of unrelated stuff.
1) I am currently using a Dell Latitude CPi that has a modular bay in front that can hold either a second battery, a floppy drive, or a cdrom drive. How do I hot swap the cdrom in and out and have the system see it? I know that the hardware is capable of doing this because I can do it under windows, but for the life of me, I cannot get Linux to do it. I guess I would like to know how to be able to do the same thing with a docking station. (i.e. suspend the system and undock and have Linux be aware of the change and survive). 2) Is there any way to define a hardware profile for the system where it will recognize that a specific set of hardware is installed (e.g. docked with cd drive install, docked with cd and floppy drive, undocked no cdrom drive, etc) and self configure based on this? 3) Does anybody know how of an existing method to determine what services start based on your configuration (i.e. networked connected or no network connected). At present ypbind starts all the time and fails if there is no network, which does not take much time, but it is annoying. There is also no reason to have autofs, apache, samba load if there is not network. I would also like to be able to assign an IP address to my system if the network is not connected so that Gnome works correctly (it does not like not having an IP address). Well this is a start. I'm sure I will have more. Garl ======================================================================= Garl R. Grigsby Senior Customer Applications Engineer - I-DEAS CAE & FEMAP Support ----------------------------------------------------------------------- EDS PLM Solutions Phone: (800) 955-0000 Global Technical Access Center FAX: (541) 342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://support.plms-eds.com ======================================================================= -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous- ======================================================================= _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
