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Paul Khoury wrote: > > > >Does anyone have any suggestions? (I won't even dream about asking > >about Linux-IrDA yet!) > > You mean they have IrDA in LINUX?!?!? > > Shoot, I can't even get sound or PCMCIA in Linux. > > Paul Linux sound and PCMCIA works like a champ. There is no support at the moment for IrDA with Linux, however on my IBM560 sound, PCMCIA, APM, Suspend, Hybernation, etc all work perfectly. When in suspend mode, it comes on in less than two seconds. I get about 2.5hour battery life. I have PCMCIA cards for scsi (cdrom and JAZ), ethernet, and modem. I swapped out the 1 gig drive for a 2 gig drive. That cost a few hundred $, but was worth it. The video is a 1152 900 virtual screen with 8 virtual desktops. I have one with netscape, one for my calendar, 1 for matlab, and the rest for general fooling around. 16 bit color also works fine, but with only 1MB of video ram, you loose the virtual screen (but not the virtual desk-tops). Thus I only use 16bit color rarely. I also plug a mouse in the back, which works in parallel with the little erasure-head mouse, which gets hard on the finger after a full day. I forgot, there is one problem with APM. If you use the floppy, the suspend works one time, but after the first suspend, it fails to suspend. It is necessary to reboot to restore suspend after using the floppy. Being networked, I rarely use the floppy however. Jont -- ==> NOTE NEW ADDRESS AND PHONE NUMBER: Jont B. Allen, Room B009; 973(or 201)/360-8545voice, x8092fax; http://www.research.att.com/~jba; AT&T Labs-Research 180 Park AV; PO Box 971; Florham Park NJ 07932-0971