On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 02:46:35PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > Maybe the subject is a bit harsh, but currently users trying to > install Debian on a Notebook face more problems than users installing > it on a desktop computer. Compared with other Linux distributions
It worked very well for my one. > - Provide a useful notebook-kernel-image and pcmcia-modules package. Wait a moment. Don't think a thinkpad is your standard notebook. Most others work really well. Abd thius include kernel as well as pcmcia. > serious working on the road an apm aware kernel is needed. Or try to Right. I got this from compiling my own as I do anyway. > and many other notebooks. And when I install a new kernel I have to > recompile pcmcia-modules :-(, so I don't see any sense in the binary How else shall that work? > pcmcia-modules package. Or is it provided for desktops with PCMCIA > slots? And you often don't have the disk space to compile kernels on There is lot of sense. I did install my system via dselects apt method. That is I had to have my ethernet pcmcia card up and running. This was only possible because of the binary packages. And frankly at that point I don't cared about APM support. > I sent some remarks to the maintainers of the kernel and pcmcia > packages, but did not get many responses. Compared with other (german) > distributions Debian lacks much notebook support. The things mentioned > here could be improved although the solutions proposed have to be > further polished and improved. But then we lead the others in several other areas. Does anyone else offer netenv? Michael -- Dr. Michael Meskes | Th.-Heuss-Str. 61, D-41812 Erkelenz | Go SF49ers! Senior-Consultant | business: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Go Rhein Fire! Mummert+Partner | private: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Use Debian Unternehmensberatung AG | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | GNU/Linux!
