Subject: Re: Thinkpads with port replicators?
To: Steve Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
From: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@dsg.stanford.edu>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/07/2004 13:39:20
In message <20040407201617.498BC7B44@berkshire.research.att.com>Steve Bellovin writes
>Does anyone have any experience using Thinkpads (and in particular, R
>-series Thinkpads) with IBM port replicators and XFree86? I tried it
>once, with a borrowed replicator; it didn't work, but I never pursued
>the question of why, and I had some indications it could have been the
>port replicator itself. The intended application would be using
>external keyboard, mouse, display, and probably Ethernet, under 2.0.
I suppose an 600E/600X is too old to be relevant? Those worked for me
with the lockdown "base stations" (no ethernet).
(No external keyboard, though; only mouse, just as with the laptop itself).