[wplug] setting up an old laptop

[Ben Beige]

Well I've gotten a base install of debian up and going I dunno how to  get 
the wireless card working though


At 01:39 PM 1/17/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>I found tom's rootboot very helpful in setting up old laptops to be
>useful; I also found the debian floppy installation helpful.    I got an old
>Epson 486/8mb memory to run debian, never got X to work but I did get doom
>to run once.  It was fine though for using emacs, links browser, pine,
>ssh, etc.
>
>
>
>On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Ben Beige 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
> >
> > Ben Beige
> > b.beige at zoominternet.net
> >
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Ben Beige
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