The term "dark market" sounds illegal to me. Therefore, I wouldn't use it for
something I consider to be good.
Fortunately, having no wireless isn't a deal breaker for me.
I also like to purchase old computing devices from physical shop (or "dark
market" as I usually call it). I once purchased three X40 machines, and they
were slightly cheaper than your T40. Each one came with an Atheros card (and
otherwise I wouldn't buy them at all).
Here are some further
Well, I am happy how it worked out so far. And I just have the systems that
where easy to get. The last one I bought was just for 15 Euros. So there was
not much to lose. The only annoying thing is that I need to get new CMOS
batteries. They are very cheap too but most of the time they are
Debian buster is 3 years newer than Trisquel 8, so lots of bugs could have
been fixed. The newly-fixed bugs may affect legacy platforms as well.
Unfortunately, T40 doesn't have usable Atheros card (unless whitelist can be
removed), and doesn't have Intel's integrated graphics model. So you
Oddly enough I could get rid of the problem by installing Debian Buster in
the end. Everything seems to work now. I don't get how this could even be
relevant. And I tried with an other T40 which I recently got very cheap.
There I had similar problems with Trisquel but not with Debian. (And
I think I have tested the RAM already but I actually can't remember any more.
I will test and investigate more as soon as I can.
Thank you for your feedbacks Magic Banana and nadebula.1984.
> you want the hard disk having a higher boot priority than the network
I have of course changed those options over and over again. Unfortunately it
doesn't help.
> check whether your CPU indeed supports PAE
I know already that I
I've used T40 for some years. To be honest, it's not suitable for modern
GNU/Linux distributions.
First, it uses ATI discrete graphics. Second, there is no usable Atheros WLAN
cards (unless the white list restrictions can be removed).
For the hardware, I believe that T40 doesn't support
Resently I got my old IBM ThinkPad T40 laptop from about 2003 back. (Someone
else had it at home but hasn't actually use it in recent years.) Firstly I
replaced the finally empty CMOS battery. Afterwards I could install Trisquel
8.0 mini only by using a DVD. (The USB option unfortunately
