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.
The other HOWTO authors from the LINUX DOCUMENTATION PROJECT - LDP.
The members of the Linux/IrDA® Project.
The members of the Linux-Laptop Mailing List.
The members of the Debian-Laptop Mailing List.
The visitors and contributors of my MobiliX pages.
Cedric Adjih , wrote the chapter about the NeoMagic chipset.
Amlaukka
Michele Andreoli, maintainer of muLinux.
Ben Attias .
Gerd Bavendiek , netenv
John Beimler , provided the URL of photopc.
Ludger Berse .
Stephane Bortzmeyer for his suggestions about email with UUCP, the use of CVS or related tools to synchronize two machines, and the noatime mount option.
Lionel, "trollhunter" Bouchpan-Lerust-Juery, , for providing the French translation and information about wearables .
Felix Braun .
David Burley
David Chien
Sven Crouse for information about touchpads
Eric wrote how to transfer pictures from a digital camera.
Ingo Dietzel , for his patience with the project.
Brian Edmonds
Peter Englmaier , provided the chapter about a sophisticated email setup.
Joel Eriksson , for information about Atari laptops.
Gledson Evers , started the Portuguese translation.
Klaus Franken .
Guido Germano , for information about the Macintosh Powerbook 145B.
Bill Gjestvang .
Alessandro Grillo , started the Italian translation.
Mikael Gueck
Marcus Hagn has written some powersaving tweaks
W. Wade, Hampton , did much of spell, grammar and style checking and added many valuable information.
David Hinds, the maintainer of the PCMCIA-CS package.
Karsten Hopp
Uwe SV Kubosch , hints about Amiga
Jeremy D. Impson provide instructions about installing on a Toshiba Libretto 50CT Jeremy D. Impson
Adrian D. Jensen , provided some notes on removable hard disks
Steven G. Johnson , provided most of the information about Apple/Macintosh m68k machines and LinuxPPC on the PowerBook.
Dan Kegel , pointed me to the Toshiba Linux page.
Gilles Lamiral for providing the PLIP Install-HOWTO.
Sian Leitch , suggestions on style
LuftHans , announced this HOWTO to the maintainer of the Hardware-HOWTO.
Anderson MacKay , RLUG - Rice University Linux User Group , gave many different detailed recommendations.
Jari Malinen , for support with HUT Mobile IP.
Paul Mansfield , ICQ:13391313 information about removable hard disks
Stefan Martig .
Harald Milz , from SuSE provided numerous additions.
Emerson, Tom # El Monte , for his idea about laptop bags.
Dan Mueth author of the kmc_utils
Louis A. Mulieri , information about removable hard disks
Nathan Myers , from LL - LinuxLaptops for numerous additions.
Leandro Noferin , for proofreading the italian parts.
Ulrich Oelmann , gave valuable additions about the installation with muLinux.
Federico Pellegrin , provided the chapter about installation from a parallel port CD drive
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry, , Debian maintainer of anacron and other packages, for Debian support.
Igor Pesando .
Benjamin C. Pierce
Lucio Pileggi , provided information about the Siemens S25 cellular phone.
Steve Rader .
Bruce Richardson
Jaime Robles , gave me some information about the HAM-HOWTO.
Pete Rotheroe
Simon Rowe
Frank Schneider .
Hans Schou , FlashPath for Linux
Martin "Joey" Schulze
Chandran Shukla .
Adam Spiers .
Peter Sprenger .
Leon Stok
Christian Stolte
Peter Teuben , for some suggestions about hard disks.
Bob Toxen .
Thomas Traber .
Geert Van der Plas , provided information about the touchpad driver included in the GPM.
Marcel Ovidiu Vlad .
Michael Wiedmann , PIA - X11 based PalmPilot Address Manager , found many spelling errors and more.
Tim Williams , pointed me to System Commander 2000 partition manager
Richard Worwood , for mirroring of the HOWTO.
Sorry, but probably I have forgotten to mention everybody who helped.