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

[John Lengeling]

Tim,

 

Thanks for pointing out the madwifi driver, but unfortunately the driver
doesn't support the specific Atheros chipset in this card.   Guess I
will be going out and getting a different card.

 

I also tried ndiswrapper with the driver off of D-Link's website but
that just caused the kernel to crash hard on boot.

 

johnl

 

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From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On
Behalf Of Tim Wilson
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 12:56 PM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] What is a good distro for an older laptop

 

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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