Thanks, Bob! The question has been rendered moot, however, as I opted to
sell the laptop. It would have taken too much money paid out for memory to make
it a viable machine, and even then it would have only had 256M of RAM.
As a side note, I loaded XUBUNTU on it, and it worked. It took five minutes
to open an application, but it worked! It even recognized the Ethernet adapter!
It just wasn't worth investing any money in at this stage.
Tnx es 73
Dave
KB3MOW
-----Original Message-----
From: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com [mailto:digitalra...@yahoogroups.com]on
Behalf Of Bob Donnell
Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 8:19 PM
To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [digitalradio] Question for the Linux gurus
Hi Dave,
First would be to make sure there really isn't support for it. If you can
get to a bash shell, and get logged in as root, you can run ifconfig, and see
if it lists the USB ethernet adapter. I say this from the perspective of an
even older laptop, for which I had (of all things) a parallel port to ethernet
adapter - and the installation I did recognized the presence of the adapter,
and initialized it. Run ifconfig -a and note what interfaces it comes up with
- probably just the loopback interface, but if the laptop has an infrared port,
it might also be reported. Then plug in the USB ethernet dongle, wait 10-15
seconds for Linux to enumerate the device, or if you're running from CD,
perhaps longer - wait for the CDROM drive to spin down? Then run ifconfig -a
again and see if there's a new interface. At that point, if it's connected to
a network with a dhcp server, you'll probably have a working network connection.
Hope that helps!
73, Bob, KD7NM
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From: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com [mailto:digitalra...@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Dave 'Doc' Corio
Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 5:09 PM
To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [digitalradio] Question for the Linux gurus
Thanks for the response, Rik. Not having any idea how to run Linux from a
USB stick, I tried the next best thing. I booted up under Linux from the CD and
plugged the stick in. I can look at the contents of the stick with no problem,
so I do know the USB port works. But how on earth can I connect to the internet
through the USB adapter with no driver for it?
Tnx es 73
Dave
KB3MOW
-----Original Message-----
From: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com [mailto:digitalra...@yahoogroups.com]on
Behalf Of Rik van Riel
Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 7:46 PM
To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Question for the Linux gurus
Dave wrote:
> There is no NIC, however it does have two USB ports. I have a USB
interface that connects to my cable modem, but it doesn't have a Linux driver
available for it. Can anyone guess if it will work? It's a Linksys model USB10T
>
> I'm trying to locate additional memory for the laptop, but unsure if I
can find any.
You may be able to fix both of these at the same time by running Linux
from a USB stick. USB sticks may be slower than hard disks for huge
transfers, but they are faster for small transfers (no seek time).
That also allows you to try out whether the USB ethernet interface
works, without having blown away the OS that is currently on the
laptop.
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