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This is a Winbook XL, with a 400MHz processor and 64meg of ram. Dell 4800LT (Cisco Aironet) wireless card, installed OS is VectorLinux.
Running 800x600 24bit color (C&T video card)
Use the Cisco Aiornet linux driver from Cisco (Go Cisco!)
You'll need to pass the following to the kernel in your lilo.conf, or the keyboard and mouse won't work (irq conflict with the cardbus):
append="pci=irqmask=0xafff"
There is a bugzilla report about this (37812) on the RedHat site. That append statement excludes irqs 12 and 14 from the list of irqs that pci devices can use. When pcmcia runs, it will take irq 15.
Sound is pretty tricky to get working. Luckily, I found a nice document to help me along. Basically, you need to add the following to modules.conf:
alias sound-slot-0 opl3sa2
options opl3sa2 io=0x370 mss_io=0x530 mpu_io=0x330 irq=5 dma=0 dma2=1
options opl3sa2 io=0x388
VectorLinux seems to be an excellent choice for this machine, since it is lightweight and includes a couple of nice lightweight windows managers. This laptop is for my 10 year old daughter, and ease of use is a must. I've installed Opera as the browser and installed the linux Flash plugin (she likes to surf some fairly intensive flash sites) as well as the linux RealAudio plugin. Both function flawlessly. All in all, a nicely functioning laptop now.
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