From: William Van Tuyl (wvantuyl_at_mynewroads.com)
Date: Fri Aug 09 2002 - 23:38:31 EDT
The short answer to the dock is no - that's for the 760. for more info Go
to
http://www.pc.ibm.com/qtechinfo/LWIK-3R5ES5.html?lang=en_US&page=brand&brand=IBM+ThinkPad%7CThinkPad+755C%2FCS&family=IBM+ThinkPad%7CThinkPad+755C%2FCS&machineType=IBM+ThinkPad%7CThinkPad+755C%2FCS
Plenty of info available.
Bill
Howes wrote:
> Hi - Quick intro - middle aged EE old enough to be able to claim to have
> done a lot of programming on a PDP-8/L and PDP-11/03 back when Unix was
> ver 5 and the Arpanet was cool.
>
> I just recently acquired two IBM Thinkpads (a 750c and a 755c) that I am
> trying to fix up and eventually load Linux onto. The 750c is stock (8MB
> RAM, 340 MB drive), and the 755c has 20 MB RAM and a fairly new Toshiba
> 2.1 GB drive.
>
> Both are basically working, but I have two questions;
>
> Q - I have been using a D-Link DE620 parallel port ethernet adapter to
> load Linux onto the machines via an NFS server on a large desktop Linux
> system. I'm running Linux-Mandrake 7.1 on the server, loading an NFS
> image of Linux-Mandrake 6.0 to the Thinkpads. This works well on the
> 750c, but I can't get it to go on the 755c. Network communication quits
> shortly after transferring a small amount of data (50K to 60K bytes) on
> the 755c. The parallel port on the 755c passes its internal diagnostics,
> and the link works for a while using NFS and also ftp, but dies
> eventually. Anyone had experience with this and managed to fix it?
>
> Q - The same dealer where I got the two machines also has a docking
> station that I might get if it will work with either laptop. I do not
> know what model the docking station is, but it has the number 3547-001
> on the front, a large locking key on the right side, and a housing for
> an ISA or PCI card in the rear.
> Anyone know what model this dock is, and if it will work with the 750c
> or 755c?
>
> Thanks in advance for any help, and my apologies if this has been asked
>
> and answered in the past!
>
> Regards,
>
> Ron Howes
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