Laptops :: Will i be able to run DSL on such an old laptop?

Thats fine..just find old sytle pcmica cards..not cardbus
Gray metal all the way to the pins not the ones with the gold strip

Brian
AwPhuch

Awphuch,

I have a LTE 5380 and a docking station.... DSL didn't detect the NE2000 compatable NIC built into the docking station...

Can you post real quick what I need to do...

DSL so far is running great on the system, but I haven't installed the network driver... how do I turn on the NE2000 support?

Would that be modprode NE? Or something at the commandline???

Thanks...

Quote (NewDude @ Mar. 28 2006,15:59)

As soon as I get home and get a power hookup to it, its a rather simple command line that I added to the /opt/bootlocal.sh file and bam..at boottime it loads the ne2000 drivers...pump's the DHCP and bamo..instant internet!

Brian
AwPhuch

I got it to work...

ifdown -a

modprobe ne irq=10 io=0x340

ifup -a

then ran netcardconfig... it is up and going...

Yup...exactly that...I had to set mine to irq=11 io=330 due to the bios (you can change it if you want in the bios)

Pretty sweet huh..sucker works pretty nice for such a hunka junker...just beware...if you open firefox...get ready for a 45-60 second delay!

Oh and you dont have to do netcardconfig...if you want to capture a DHCP address just add "pump -i eth0" right below that line to activate it..and bam

Just be warned if its not connected to a lan when you boot it will hang for about 30 sec until the DHCP request times out

now add those commands to your /etc/bootlocal.sh to activate it every time at boot time

Brian
AwPhuch

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