Second DSL endeavorForum: User Feedback Topic: Second DSL endeavor started by: JasonT Posted by JasonT on Dec. 31 2003,10:49
My first ingress into the world of DSL going so smoothly I decided to break out the hard one. My wife's ancient HP 35xx laptop. Pentium I 170mhz 50mg 1.2 gig. Ok, quite a step down. First problem encountered was that apparently the bios peoples back then saw no need for CD boot. That really hurt. However, I decided to rawwrite the boot floppy image and try that. Ofcourse the little beast didnt have rarwrite on it and my main machine didnt have a floppy drive (havent used one in years on my main box.) But, a quick download and cd burn later I ammaking my boot floopy. The system booted fine with the boot floppy. Boot time was about what you would expect of a machine with these specs. Everything was detected with the exception of the card modem. A problem I am fairly certain could be alleviated with some judicious kernal hacking. The sound was detected and set up but appeared to emmit only faint squeeking noises. This may have been to the cpu and memory hosage when anything tried to play. Over all a most satisfactory attempt. If I can get it to dial out ppp I am set. The other option is to get a NIC pmcia. I am sufficiently impressed John. Good work. This is leading my learning of Linux onward HO! Cheers. |