Good call, Garl! I wish my linux-laptop use could be more refined -- I've taken shortcuts where possible (and don't use hotplugging hardware) so I don't have much to offer, except that I disbaled networking on bootup, since it takes forever to discover that it is not connected! I'm sure I could change the timeout... but... I didn't. I created a few short aliases for the root user, so I can switch "modes" to be connected, as well as run the most basic networking without turning on all the services that I sometimes do use. Hopefully I can be helped by this thread too!! One more request to add to yours: I'd like to be able to suspend-to-disk, as my dual boot in 'bloze does, and I've seen some docs on this (re: special partition type) so have that on my todo list.
thanks, Ben On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 14:12:36 -0400 "Grigsby, Garl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | 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 _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
