MWave support for ThinkPads under Linux (fwd)

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From: Alexander Krumeich (krumeich_at_cl-ki.uni-osnabrueck.de)
Date: Thu Jul 22 1999 - 07:07:08 EDT


Hi, everybody

This came in on another ThinkPad/Linux related mailing list. Since I know
that there are quite a few Linux users in this forum, I forward it to this
list. Please take a look at it. It might be worth it.

        Alexander

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Alexander Krumeich
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---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 12:30:08 +0200 From: Bill Mair <bill.mair_at_mail.bm-soft.com> Reply-To: linux-thinkpad_at_www.bm-soft.com To: linux-thinkpad <linux-thinkpad_at_bm-soft.com> Subject: MWave support for ThinkPads under Linux

Hi all,

I received this message from Keith Frecette who is in IBMs MWave team:

> Bill, > > I've been attempting to collect some statistical data to demonstrate to > ThinkPad that it is in our best interest to develop Mwave drivers for Linux. > Thomas Hood has been helping by collecting names of Linux users that have > expressed an interest in Linux support. > > Although IBM has not yet announced anything, the future does not look bleak. > > -- Keith

I know that I would really like to have IBM support MWave in the Linux environment, so please, if you want this kind of support, let me know.

I'll put together a list of the names/email addresses of the people wanting this and send it to Keith as a kind petition, it could help his cause, and give hime more material to convince IBM's management that there is a real need for

this support amongst the Linux-ThinkPad community.

Please address mails for this petition directly to me, as I don't want to have this mailing list filled with a couple of hundred "Me too"s.

mailto:bill.mair_at_bm-soft.com?subject=Linux-MWave-Petition

The above works on Netscape, not sure about other mailers though. Please

be aware that I will be including both the names and email addresses of the people in the petition, I don't want to send Keith (IBM) a mail saying "150 members of the linux-thinkpad mailing list want/need MWave support", so please bear that in mind when sending in your name for addition to the petition.

I will keep you all informed as to the number of people who will be on the petition.

BTW the list now has more that 200 members !

Bill.


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