Just to say that with thanks to a number of people I have Debian Linux working
on my IBM Thinkpad.
The last major hurdles were overcome with my two PCMCIA cards:
- Pace voice/fax 56K PCMCIA modem, used as normal modem
- IBM Etherjet (Crystal Semi chipset) PCMCIA network card
The 380ED has 2.1GB disk, 600MB is small windows98 partition, 200MB dos/fat-16
data (for easy backup), dual-booting with Debian Linux on the third partition
which is 2.1GB.
The system has a Neomagic video chip set, and I am successfully using the
Meomagic X server. I don't run XDM by default, as I am mainly using the machine
as a firewall/dialup/server/experimental platform.
The machine is set up with built-in serial as com1, IRDA as com2, parallel as
normal bi-directional (ECP stole DMA ports I used for IRDA), and sound is on
IRQ9.
To make the PCMCIA cards work together I had to manually tell
/etc/pcmcia/configs.opt not to try and use the IRQ for the sound driver, as it
didn't notice.
The only thing outstanding is sound support... it doesn't see my hardware, but
I don't really care that much.
I am happy to share config files if people want them ('cept /etc/shadow :-)
Paul
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Civilisation: where they cut down the trees and name streets after them.
