I have a similar Toshiba laptop that I turned over to my wife for web
browsing and email. I found that RH 7.3 worked well and that Suse 8 worked
well and even supported the 16bit netgear wireless card once I turned off
the kernel PCMCIA support ( simple config file change). Where as RH 8 & 9
never worked right with my PCMCIA cardbus out of the box. Gnome even works
ok if I turn off all the options and GUI fluff, the best is still straight x
with fvwm.
VHF
Message: 10
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 22:05:05 -0700
From: Richard Steffens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [PDXLUG] Santa came early!
To: pdxlug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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A friend of mine has closed an office, and I am now the proud owner of
three old computers: two Micron desktops, a 333 MHz Pentium II, and a 400
MHz Pentium II, and a Micron laptop(?). The "laptop" probably went by a
different designation due to its weight, but will suffice for my purposes.
It's a 166 MHz Pentium MMX with 64 Mb of Ram. It dates to somewhere in the
mid to late 90's. Came with an ethernet card plugged in, so it can join my
home network.
The native software is Win95, and I have a driver CD, but it doesn't have
anything on it related to Linux.
A Linux-Google search of "Micron TransPort XPE" turned up 10 pages, the
most recent being from 2000. The Linux on Laptops page is more promising:
the Micron XPE link is to a guy running RH 8 on his machine.
http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/micron.html
So, I'm just getting started, and hope to get Linux running on this
machine. It's been a couple of years since I installed Linux on anything,
the last successful one being RH 8 on my Thinkpad. At the risk of starting
a distro war, any recommendations for which one to try on it?
--
Regards,
Dick Steffens
http://home.comcast.net/~rsteff/
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