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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Notebook (Re: BSD vs. Linux)
Date: 11 Mar 1994 06:25:45 GMT
Organization: Weber State University, Ogden, UT
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In article <2lm8ok$ssr@news.nynexst.com> hjl@nynexst.com (H.J. Lu) writes:
>Arne H. Juul (arnej@pvv.unit.no) wrote:
>
>: Running Linux for its networking code seems somewhat odd to me.
>
>Have you tried to put your notebook on a network with a PCMCIA ethernet
>card?

Works great; all you need is a PCMCIA enabler shim, which is very few lines
of code to write, especially if you have doc's for PCMCIA.  Most of the
network cards are NE2000 compatible.  Should take you half an hour.

It also works with anything else PCMCIA if you code things right (or one
network card exactly if you do it wrong), including FAX modems and SCSI
interfaces for things like tape drives.  8-).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@cs.weber.edu
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