[plug] IBM Thinkpad 760XD

[Bruce M. Axtens]

Thanks to Thomas at the iVec demo I was able to speed
this little monster up by fiddling with hdparm.

I installed Ubuntu. Is there a better distro for such
a resource-strapped laptop?

Also, does anyone have a working PCMCIA card they can
lend/give/sell me (in that order) as the one that came
with the machine appears to be cactus. Interestingly,
Ubuntu recognises it's there and cardctl (or one of
those card* thingies) even identifies the card aright,
but ethtool can't talk to it and the lights don't
flash when I'm connected to the network.

Also, how do I tell Ubuntu that I really don't want
the scsi/usb/tsdev modules loaded. Sure I can rmmod or
(is it?) modprobe -r but that seems only to last up
until the next reboot.

Thanks in advance for all help and suggestions.

Regards,
Bruce.

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Some folks taste of Heaven \ Some folks taste of Hell 
Some folks lose their taste and they cannot tell

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