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From: michael butler <imb@scgt.oz.au>
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Subject: laptop installations
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Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 01:01:08 +1000 (EST)
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Laptops appear to be a significant installation nightmare .. unless you have
a CDROM or a full set of floppies you end up using the serial port (and
many, many hours).

Maybe I've missed something but it seems that, by default, even though I have
this ethernet card plugged in the side of the machine, I have no way of
capitalising on the bandwidth of the T3 its default gateway's plugged into.

Are there any issues wrt having pcmcia slots enabled in the generic kernel ?

I currently have a D-link (ne2000 compat?) installed but have had a 3c589
with similar results .. the inabilty to use it,

	michael