"Steven C. Darnold" wrote: > Robert Steinmetz wrote: > > > Have you considered a special version of BasicLinux for > > old notebooks? > > I have an old notebook and BasicLinux works just fine on it.
It works fine on mine as well, My thought was more to eliminate some of the more general purpose stuff and add some notebook specific stuff, PCMCIA mostly. > > very few old notebooks don't have built in networking. This was a mistake, I meant to say most old notebooks don't, many more recent models do. > Mine doesn't. Someday I may buy a network card for it, but > at the moment it attaches to my TCP/IP via a laplink cable. Neither does mine. I am currently using and old PCMCIA ethernet/modem card, and it works fine with the stock BasicLinux and Slackware 3.5 pcmcia file. If I could get a wireless card that would work with it I wouldn't be doing all of this. > Cheers, > Steven > -- Rob Steinmetz To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
