From: eichin@tweedledumber.cyGNUs.com (Mark Eichin) Subject: Re: INFO NEEDED ABOUT LINUX ON LAPTOP (and Compudyne Subnote mini-review) Date: 12 Aug 1993 15:58:20
Thanks for the address, I've called them (all they can tell me so far
is that it uses a "Databook" chip, they're trying to find out more,
but have promised to fax me anything they find out. We'll see. The
online manual does say that the controller is at ports 240-24F, which
means it is *not* the Intel controller...) Anyone ever heard of Databook?
>> What PCMCIA cards does the machine support? I've run into problems
All it says is that it supports PCMCIA Type II cards, and it
comes with DOS drivers for flash ram cards and suggests you get
drivers from the vendors for others. (The "enabler" for the ethernet
card I have access to doesn't have support for this one, though it
does for several others.)
_Mark_ <eichin@athena.mit.edu>
MIT Student Information Processing Board
Cygnus Support <eichin@cygnus.com>
ps. The other 4M ram and extra battery arrived today (CompUSA is,
well, "disorganized" about shipping things, though to their credit
they don't seem to charge for what they haven't shipped.) 8M means I
can run many more things without swapping... took the kernel build
from 1:18 down to 0:28 (I'd think it should be faster, but it may be
CPU bound.)