Would you recommend the product? no | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 5
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Kernel (uname -r):
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DSL 2.0
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The only reason I even attempted to use this laptop is because I got a free Linksys WPC11 v4 wireless card and it was the only laptop I had. After all my trouble, i found out that the PCMCIA slots are not true PCMCIA, they are Cardbus, and the Linksys WPC11 v4 does not work with cardbus.
With the stock 16mb ram, I was able to get Debian Woody with the 2.2-compact kernel running w/ command line only and minimal effort.
Also with the stock 16mb ram, I was able to get NetBSD running w/ X11, but I would not recommend that.
I finally caved and bought another 32mb of ram and I was able to get a hard drive install of DSL running w/ X11 fairly well and without much hassel.
I would only recommend trying to use this laptop to a hobbyist, because it's so slow, it really isn't worth the effort.
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