PC-3020 Laptop

[netsparc]

Hey, I just went and installed the floppy build on Slink (debian 2.2). On a piece of crap laptop. Now I'm hoping that I can run X and some gui. I don't know which so I decided to ask. Could someone help me get started installing something that would go with my 100 MHz Floppy only 500MB 32MB Ram system?

There is a pcmcia modem that works afaik except I couldn't get much from pon (it's speaker was cranked up and it didnt start to dial out).

[netsparc]

Err, well after a year or so I got a wi-fi card and installed netbsd. Now all I have to do is set up my XF86Config file. Too bad I have no clue what brands of hardware I'm dealing with.

[mdwatts]

Nothing in NetBSD to show what hardware you have?

Would your laptop be listed at www.linux-laptop.net ?

Sorry I'm not much help.

[Tulluin]

Check this out, it may help.
http://thaumaturgy.net/~etgold/linuxsharp.html

[netsparc]

Originally posted by mdwatts
Nothing in NetBSD to show what hardware you have?

Would your laptop be listed at www.linux-laptop.net ?

Sorry I'm not much help.

Well, there probably is but I just don't know about it. What would you use in a normal system? I need to find out some info on the glidepoint device (if that's what it's called), and I'm afraid to probe the graphics hardware since it's so old. I just need to know things like VRAM size, and Freq ranges. For starters being able to pinpoint the maker of the chip would be nice also.

The best match at www.linux-laptop.net was a Sharp PC-3040 that Tullin pointed out, which is newer than my system. I don't think there's much exact hardware information there anyway. The whole reason I installed debian before netbsd was that guy who did it in that article.

If I get enough information to get this thing up and running totally, I might have to submit a page to the linux-laptop resource.

Thanks guys

[mdwatts]

I would use

lspci

sysinfo

cat /proc/interrupts

cat /proc/ioports

etc.