>From: "Raymond Lillard" <rlillard@prosysmeg.com>
>Subject: A21p and RedHat 7.1
>Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 21:53:43 -0700


Dear CAI,

I found your web-page and thought I'd let you 
know that RedHat 7.1 installs out of the box.  
I read your web-page prior to selecting the A21p 
and felt that installing a sanitized version of 
RedHat 6.2 from VALinux was my best bet, because 
of the issues with RH-7.0.

The very day the laptop arrived, found out that 
ReadHat has released v7.1 so I downloaded it 
directly from their ftp site.

Everything works from files supplied on the CDs 
(there are now two CDs for their standard laptop 
install).  This includes the pcmcia and X-windows 
at 1600x1200.   They supply pcmcia-cs-3.1.24, 
a v3.1.25 is available, but I didn't install it.  
I did have to bring-up eth0 by manually.  Luckily 
I found the network GUI tool to do it, which saved 
me from hand editting the half-dozen files.

Thanks for your web-page, it enabled me to make a 
good choice of laptop and OS without making a 
huge time-consuming search of my own.

You may wish to add a note about a21p and RH-7.1.

Please reply if you wish any details of my experience.

Thank you,
Ray

PS:  I feel so guilty about getting so much for free, 
     that I think I'll order the distribution.  This 
     is my first experience with Gnome in about 2 years.
     From the looks of it now, several good folks have 
     been very busy, and to good effect.