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Topic: Ideal machines to run DSL on?, How slow can the machine be?

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NewDude

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Posted: Feb. 23 2006,21:36

zubalove,
Want version of DSL is working good with your wireless netgear 401 card? I am curious.

My dad is giving(I am actually buying it for $100) me his old Tobshiba latop P233, it had 96mb and a 4gb hd in it, DVD/CD-ROM and floopy. It has a D-Link PCMIA wireless card, I know DSL supports a few D-LINK but I was curious if version 2.2b is harder to setup with wireless than 2.1 or older. I want to get the version that will be the easiest to setup for me. If that means going all the way back to DSL 1.5 then I will.

Do you know?

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Posted: Feb. 27 2006,00:44

As I mentioned in another topic, I have DSL running functionally on a P-60 with 32MB, and a P-150 laptop with 48MB (frugal install.) Right now I am typing this on a P-166 MMX with 128 MB and it's smokin'.

NewDude

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Posted: Feb. 27 2006,03:44

P60 Huh??? That was the very first pentium class created... I don't think intel made a lot of them. P60 was the first intel machine I ever got at work. It was an huge tower... I remember, my boss at the time came to me and told me he wanted me to turn in my 486 for a pentium. The 486 was a 66mhz and the pentium was a 60, but the pentium was faster because of the bus for faster.

That is cool...

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Posted: Feb. 27 2006,04:16

Yeah I found this Packard Bell machine on an auction pallet. The whole pallet went for a buck and had a bunch of office supplies on it. I never went with the early Pentiums myself, I usually used Cyrix and AMD.

Too bad I don't still have my 386DX-33, that was the first box I built by myself. I'd love to see if it would run DSL.

NewDude

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Posted: Feb. 27 2006,04:53

THat is interesting...

I never got into using INTEL chips until about 3 years ago. You are like me, I was a Cyrix and AMD guy for 6 years. My first Cyrix chip for a 166 (I think), but it ran hot, I think Cyrix over clocked their CPU's if I remember rightly.

My first AMD system was a K6 233. I bought a mother board and a AMD 166mhz chip about a month ago at a garage sale. The guy sold it to me for $1. I don't have a case for it or even a power supply. I am hopeing to run across one soon so I can run DSL on it to.

Not to change the subject but: I have a question. I am stuck right now with my PIII and my wireless card.

Saturday DSL was seeing my wireless card, when I tried to use NDISWrapper, it connected to my wireless network, but crashed soon after.

But now, I am sitting here messing with it again and DSL doesn't see my card at all. It used to see it as wlan0, now nothing. I can't even try to config it or mess with it because it doesn't see it anymore. I haven't taken apart the system or anything since Saturday when it was seeing it. I know the card is seated correctly. Do you know anything I can do to get DSL at least to see this card again so I can continue messing with it where I left off?

Thanks...

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