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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=771573813-14112008>I have an old IBM
E600 Pentium II laptop currently running a buggy Win2k. It is connected to
a wireless network via a PCMCIA card (D-Link). RAM:128,
HD:20G.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=771573813-14112008>I would like to
replace the OS with Linux and use it for a simple serial terminal and occasional
wireless web browsing and email. I have tried XUBUNTU,
Slackware and a couple other LiveCD's to see what distro might work but
have not been able to get any to boot. They start but never finish.
I recently tried what I thought was a FreeBSD LiveCD but it also refuses to get
very far into the boot.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=771573813-14112008>Should I be looking
at an older version of Linux? Should I expect problems with the PCMCIA
wireless card?</SPAN></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>