I would like to thank the many people who assisted with corrections and suggestions. Their contributions have made this work far better than I could ever have done alone. Especially I would like to thank, in order of appearance:
First of all Kenneth E. Harker <kharker@cs.utexas.edu>, from his page
Linux on Laptops I have included much material into this HOWTO, but didn't always quote him verbatim.
Nathan Myers <ncm@linuxlaptops.com>, from
LL - LinuxLaptops for numerous additions.
Ben Attias <hfspc002@csun.edu>.
Igor Pesando <ipesando@to.infn.it>.
Geert Van der Plas <Geert.VanderPlas@esat.kuleuven.ac.be>, provided information about the touchpad driver included in the GPM.
Chandran Shukla <chandran@xmission.com>.
Harald Milz <hm@suse.de>, from
SuSE provided numerous additions.
Ingo Dietzel <ingo.dietzel@berlin.snafu.de>, for his patience with the project.
Emerson, Tom # El Monte <TOMEMERSON@ms.globalpay.com>, for his idea about laptop bags.
Thomas Traber <traber@inetmail.de>.
Bill Gjestvang <datawolf@ibm.net>.
Leandro Noferin <lnoferin@cybervalley.org>, for proofreading the italian parts.
Stephane Bortzmeyer <stephane@sources.org> for his suggestions about email with UUCP, the use of CVS or related tools to synchronize two machines, and the noatime mount option.
Peter Teuben <teuben@astro.umd.edu>, for some suggestions about hard disks.
Guido Germano <guido@germano.com>, for information about the Macintosh Powerbook 145B.
Joel Eriksson <joel.eriksson@alfa.telenordia.se>, for information about Atari laptops.
Gilles Lamiral <lamiral@mail.dotcom.fr> for providing the PLIP Install-HOWTO.
Alessandro Grillo <Alessandro_Grillo@tivoli.com>, started the Italian translation.
Gledson Evers <pulga_linux@bol.com.br>, started the Portuguese translation.
Dan Kegel <dank@alumni.caltech.edu>, pointed me to the Toshiba Linux page.
Jaime Robles <ea4abw@amsat.org>, gave me some information about the HAM-HOWTO.
LuftHans <LuftHans@asu.edu>, announced this HOWTO to the maintainer of the Hardware-HOWTO.
Jari Malinen <jtm@mart2.cs.hut.fi>, for support with HUT Mobile IP.
John Beimler <john@radiomind.com>, provided the URL of photopc.
Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@MIT.EDU>, provided the information about Apple/Macintosh m86k machines.
Ulrich Oelmann <ulrich.oelmann@tu-clausthal.de>, gave valuable additions about the installation with muLinux.
Lucio Pileggi <lucio@ing.unipi.it>, provided information about the Siemens S25 cellular phone.
Eric <dago@tkg.att.ne.jp> wrote how to transfer pictures from a digital camera.
Sorry, but probably I have forgotten to mention everybody who helped.