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

[John Lengeling]

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