Many, many thanks for all the help and suggestions on where to go from here. I went ahead and grabbed this wireless card and will try Abrowser on the Presario before I declare the video card to be limiting. I was planning on getting a USB wireless device from Thinkpenguin, but I'd rather have the money to make a few small monthly donations to Trisquel first.
I'm aware that Damn Small Linux is probably the best niche distro for very old hardware but I had some personal reasons for wanting to dump all proprietary software NOW and I'm in about as good a position to tinker and tweak as anyone ever is. I might just learn something and at least it'll give me something productive to do with the time and energy I DON'T want to spend doing dumb things like oversharing on social networking sites and figuring out how to read Nook Books on a Kindle just because they told me I can't. On Fri, 8 Mar 2013 02:45:24 +0100 (CET) myself...@gmail.com wrote: > A very cheap ($2.59), free software compatible card: > http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-Inspiron-N5030-Half-Wireless-Card-Atheros-AR5B95-02P1GR-2P1GR-/300872380589?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item460d6430ad > -- Heather <noordinaryspi...@gmail.com>
