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From: dc@cobi.gsfc.nasa.gov (Dave Cottingham)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Anybody interested in a notebook/laptop FAQ?
Date: 3 Apr 1994 21:09:27 GMT
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Keywords: laptops notebooks

Is anybody out there interested in a FAQ sheet for *BSD issues
peculiar to laptops, notebooks, subnotebooks, and such like?  Well, I
sure am, and if there's a reasonable level of interest out there I'd
be willing to serve as editor.  Of course, the reason I'm motivated to
do this is because I have lots of questions and few answers, but I
guess that's how FAQ sheets get started.

Here's what I have in mind for an outline:

1) PCMCIA
1.1) TCIC-2/N controller
1.2) 82365
1.3) Ethernet
1.4) Modems
2) Power management
3) XFree86 issues (briefly, main discussion belongs in comp.windows.x.i386unix)
4) List of hardware

If you have an opinion about this one way or another, or questions
you'd like to see on the sheet, send me email.

Dave Cottingham
dc@cobi.gsfc.nasa.gov