From: Antti Kilpinen (akilpinen_at_finabo.abo.fi)
Date: Fri Jan 07 1994 - 03:08:12 EST
Hello,
I recently persuated my wife to buy a TP750 for herself. I'm planning to buy
anotherone for myself really soon. We both are PhDs in chemical engineering.
She does some heavy computations on a mainframe and processes the results on
the TP.
Our current configuration is :
TP750 mono,
12M ram
340M HD,
Port replicator w PCMCIA slots
PCMCIA ethernet adapter (IBM)
External display 1024x768, keyboard and mouse attached to the Port replicator.
Problems:
1.) I have to manually continue from where autoexec.bat ended since I do
not know how to detect if
the TP is connected to the Port replicator and ethernet or not. The
networkin software will hang the machine if there is no PCMCIA
card present. Dependent on the presence of the ethernet I would like
to start different versions of config.sys, autoexec.bat and .ini files that
contain information to the networking sofware. Any Ideas?
2) The IBM provided ethernet card adapter NDIS driver inteferes with the
display so that when
loaded in config.sys, the windows display (external) get annoying
horizontal lines that are slowly moving and flickering.
Inconvenience:
I had anticipated that one could continue working with the applications at
home without rebooting the machine when pulling it from the Port Replicator.
Antti Kilpinen, PhD
Research Fellow
Institute for Advanced Management Systems Research
Abo Akademi University
FINLAND
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