[Gllug] Docking Station Lappies

[Justin Perreault]

Hello everyone I'm new to gllug, let's see if I can be of some help.

I am not much up on laptops, however I disliked docks when I had them
available to me.

I can't remember but I seem to recall . . . Ah there it is,

An SVGA to USB converter can be found at
http://www.frontier-electronics.co.za/gra070.htm

I was thinking that there were monitors that had USB instead of SVGA but
could not find one.

So the above plus an usb hub and you have a docking station. Only two
wires to connect and should be able to expand it if need be with every
thing; DVD, burner, backup harddrive, joystick, fire wire converters,
ethernet. The second wire being the power.

I say should because this of course depends on USB support in Linux,
however I suspect that USB support will be better than a proprietary
docking station. This should also allow you to pick any laptop supported
by your distro of choice.

Hope this helps,
Justin

On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 00:10 +0100, M.Blackmore wrote:
> Yup, that laptop question again ... we've decided what we want is a 
> docking station lappie for downstairs, so it can either sit at a small 
> corner desk in the space under the stairs in the kitchen diner, with a 
> proper kb, mouse, and  17" TFT, or simply be picked up and plonked on 
> the table for reading the "papers" over breakfast, plonked on lap in 
> armchair, and so forth.
> 
> Now my tek savvy is very limited. I can sort my way around Suse YAST, 
> but much beyond that its drowning not waving.
> 
> Any recommendations as to docking laptops with 15" screens that simply 
> "work" with linux and wireless networking when off the docking station?
> 
> Many thanks
> Malcolm

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