usbnet in DSL?Forum: Networking Topic: usbnet in DSL? started by: gnome Posted by gnome on Nov. 22 2005,10:53
Greetings!I am new to DSL. I have a friend with an old Compaq Armada 7370 Laptop that he would like to use to surf the net and take tlecourses on. He spends a lot of time at home with his disabled father. He only cares to get browsing. People over in the #ubuntu IRC suggested I give DSL a spin after failing both Ubuntu and MEPISLite attempts. The poor laptop only has 32Mb of memory to work with. Not knowing any better, my friend bought a pcmcia usb adaptor for the laptop and a usb cable to plug in to his cable modem. The pcmcia usb card didn't come with Windows 98 drivers. I can get far enough in both Ubuntu and MEPISLite to know that they both recognize the usb card, so I presume that DSL won't have any trouble either. Providing that the USB works as I presume it will, then what I need next (from my googling around) is something called USBNET. Does DSL have it? Can I add it then? Am I even heading in the right direction here? Thanks ever so much!!! Gnome |