Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!uwm.edu!ogicse!pdxgate!eecs!johnh From: johnh@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (John Harris) Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell Subject: Re: Laptops Message-ID: <2626@pdxgate.UUCP> Date: 14 May 91 20:28:02 GMT References: Sender: news@pdxgate.UUCP Reply-To: johnh@eecs.UUCP (John Harris) Organization: Portland State University, Portland, OR Lines: 30 In article jed1@Isis.MsState.Edu (Joseph E. Dunston) writes: > >for, but information from the laptop will eventually be transfered to >the network. The Dell Laptops have an 8-bit ISA expainsion slot. If you plug in an expansion card (ie...WD8003e or similar) you will burn your batteries, but since your on the network you will have 110VAC around, so use the power cord and unplug the Ethernet card when you go battery powered. Most Lap-tops _do not_ have an ISA expainsion slot. Instead they have propritary slots which only specfic cards fit in. Be sure when shopping to make it clear you want an ISA slot. Many sales people will confuse ISA and Propritary "expainsion" slots. AC powered "Luggables" have ISA expainsion slots, but are not battery powered. There is a Ethernet card/box that plugs into your Parallel Printer port and then to the net. Sounds like special drivers and software to me! but I don't know. IF you have "econfiged" your server to be used with packet drivers, I'd worry if the packet drivers exsit for this parallel port option. We decided on the Dell and WD8003e card, we have also "econfiged". John Harris CAD Lab Supervisor Portland State Univ. johnh@eecs.ee.pdx.edu