[Cialug] What is a good distro for an older laptop

[Tim Wilson]

I couldn't find the DWL-G650M on madwifi.org, but I did find the DWL-G650.
I don't know if these would be similar enough to be able to use the madwifi
drivers.

On 9/21/07, John Lengeling <John.Lengeling at radisys.com> wrote:
>
>
> Well I got Xubuntu installed after resolving a couple of problems.  The
> first problem is that the machine had a PCCARD cdrom drive which I could
> use to boot, but when the kernel came up it was not detected.   So I
> plugged in a USB CDROM drive which wasn't bootable from BIOS but was
> detected by the kernel.   I booted off the PCCARD CDROM, then quickly
> moved the CD to the USB CDROM as soon as the kernel booted.   Amazing it
> worked and started loading Xubuntu and the install program worked.
>
> The second problem occurred when the installer was making the root
> filesystem.  It kept getting an error and the debug console showed that
> it was trying to access beyond the end of the disk.   So instead of
> using the entire disk for the partition, I made the partition about 25M
> smaller.   Guess the BIOS was reporting the wrong size for the disk
> drive.
>
> Now I am trying to get a D-Link DWL-G650M Wireless PCCARD working.   How
> do I setup this card?   I can see the card via "lspci -v -nn" but I
> haven't found out what next to do.
>
> johnl
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Tim
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