[wplug] setting up an old laptop

[Ben Beige]

We have a WEP in our cable/dsl router and I picked up a type II  to CF card 
to use the wireless card my brother bought to use in his zarus....  Just 
need to make boot floppies now I guess.... I wonder if Debain has the stuff 
to support my wifi card in it's boot floppies..,.


Ben

At 10:45 AM 1/19/2004 -0500, you wrote:
> > I just got my hands on a old IBM thinkpad 701c it's a 486 w/ 16mb of 
> ram, I
> > was wondering what would be the best way to get Linux onto it and how to
> > connect it to my home network or another Linux box as a terminal. as 
> far as
> > I can tell it doesn't have a serial port, it dose have IR and parallel
> > thought the parallel port is also the floppy connector form the looks of
> > it. it dose have a Cirrus Logic PCIC compatible PCMCIA controller too
> > (according to windows
> > 95)  http://mdxi.collapsar.net/butterfly/tp701-specsheet.png  according to
> > this sheet it its 2 type 1 2 type 2 or 1 type 3 capable for PCMCIA if
> > anyone has a spare NIC i could get :) but I'd like recomendations on 
> how to
> > get linuc onto this system and how to connect it to my home network
>
>         I have a bunch of old laptops, and I find the absolutely easiest
>way to do this is with a wireless card, bootfloppies, and an NFS share of
>whatever your favorite distro is.
>
>         With installing RedHat, for instance, the floppies already contain
>the drivers for both orinoco, and for the prism2-based wireless cards.
>This makes installation a snap, and it's much faster than using PLIP,
>parallel CDROMs, IR, or other methods.
>
>         Like most Laptop owners, I have a box full of 3Com PCMCIA ethernet
>cards, but not a single functioning dongle.
>
>         This does, of course, require that you have a wireless
>access-point -- a good reason to pick one up is to resurrect an old
>laptop. Access-points can be purchased for $29 from Internet and local
>vendors (CompUSA, for instance). Cards are just so damn cheap these days.
>
>--
>
>Drew from Zhrodague             http://www.WiFiMaps.com
>drew at zhrodague.net              Location Based WiFi
>
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