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 LiLAC - Linux with LAptop Computers pages.
David Hinds, the maintainer of the PCMCIA-CS package.
Frank Schneider <SPATZ1@T-ONLINE.DE>.
Stefan Martig <martig@iamexwi.unibe.ch>.
Michele Andreoli, maintainer of muLinux.
Klaus Franken <kfr@klaus.franken.de>.
W. Wade, Hampton <whampton@staffnet.com>, did much of spell, grammar and style checking and added many valuable information.
Anderson MacKay <mackay@rice.edu>, RLUG - Rice University Linux User Group , gave many different detailed recommendations.
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry, <shaleh@livenet.net>, Debian maintainer of anacron and other packages, for Debian support.
Bob Toxen <bob@cavu.com>.
Peter Sprenger <spre@lugs.ch>.
Felix Braun <fbraun@atdot.org>.
Steve Rader <rader@wiscnet.net>.
Richard Worwood <richard@felch01.demon.co.uk>, for mirroring of the HOWTO.
Marcel Ovidiu Vlad <marceluc@leland.Stanford.EDU>.
Ludger Berse <lberse01@cityweb.de>.
Cedric Adjih <cedric.adjih@inria.fr>, wrote the chapter about the NeoMagic chipset.
Peter Englmaier <ppe@pa.uky.edu>, provided the chapter about a sophisticated email setup.
Michael Wiedmann <mw@miwie.in-berlin.de>, PIA - X11 based PalmPilot Address Manager , found many spelling errors and more.
Adam Spiers <adam@thelonious.new.ox.ac.uk>.
Lionel, "trollhunter" Bouchpan-Lerust-Juery, <trollhunter@linuxfr.org>, for providing the French translation and information about wearables .
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 <ldp-discuss@LuftHans.com>, 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@alum.mit.edu>, provided most of the information about Apple/Macintosh m68k machines and LinuxPPC on the PowerBook.
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.
Gerd Bavendiek <bav@esn.sbs.de>, netenv
Mikael Gueck <mikael.gueck@wapit.com>
amlaukka <amlaukka@cs.Helsinki.FI>
Federico Pellegrin <drzeus@infis.univ.trieste.it>, provided the chapter about installation from a parallel port CD drive
Jaime Robles <ea4abw@amsat.org>
Sian Leitch <algol68@sleitch.nildram.co.uk>, suggestions on style
Tim Williams <timmerw@inlink.com>, pointed me to System Commander 2000 partition manager
Bruce Richardson <brichardson@lineone.net>
Sven Crouse <scrouse@dcs.uconn.edu> for information about touchpads
Adrian D. Jensen <adjensen@notes.west.raytheon.com> , provided some notes on removable hard disks
Hans Schou <chlor@schou.dk>, FlashPath for Linux
Kubosch Uwe SV <uwe.kubosch@sbs.siemens.no>, hints about Amiga
Louis A. Mulieri <mulieri@salus.med.uvm.edu>, information about removable hard disks
Paul Mansfiled <paul@mansfield.co.uk>, ICQ:13391313 information about removable hard disks
Sorry, but probably I have forgotten to mention everybody who helped.