Best distro for Thinkpad 600 with dial-up modem enabled ?
Help please, my ageing parents have got hold of an old Thinkpad 600, which they've asked me to 'get working'. They don't have broadband, so will be using dial-up. My question is, which is the best installed distro for this task, (I don't want to use a 'live CD' distro as this would be too complicated for my parents). I tried Zenwalk 7.0, which runs lovely on it, but I just couldn't get the modem working on that distro. They'll only be using it for net surfing and email, so I need a nice simple light distro that is relatively easy to get working with the MWave 3780i DSP modem in a Thinkpad 600. Thanks
|
Maybe mint or a lubuntu. The module mwave should be in the kernel sources and the support program is called mwavem.
|
Quote:
you should read this to get a thorough idea ! |
Mint would be the way to go
|
There are Numerous IBM 600 users running http://antix.mepis.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
and are on dial up also. Same for http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=51474 |
Lots of interesting options then ! Antix, Mint and Lubuntu look favourites at present
|
I'd avoid lubuntu, if only due to nagging 'do you want to upgrade' pop-ups.
You really dont want mum + dad upgrading to the newest version then getting all the problems that can happen when you do that. Not that it matters much anyway, unless the old Thinkpad 600 has had a major upgrade, none of the *buntus will install. Neither will mint (*buntu based or LMDE) or antiX. Quote:
32MB, thats not going to be fun even with the lightest of distros..... |
Quote:
http://antix.freeforums.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=3242 |
I think this 600 must have been upgraded at some point then because it has 128mb memory. Definitely a 600 though - model number 2645-510. I've also fitted a much bigger (40 Gb) hard drive, so hopefully I'll still be able to try out the various distros.
Having said that, just cut an Antix M11 live CD, and it hangs as soon as it starts booting off the CD with the following: Missing parameter in configuration file. Keyword: APPEND gfxboot: Could not detect available memory size boot: I know the CD is OK because it loads fine on a T20 I have, so must be something up with the 600 and Antix (the reason I say with Antix M11 specifically is because I've already installed Zenwalk on this 600 fine, but gave up on it because I couldn't get the modem to work with Zenwalk). |
Sometimes the cd itself is the issue ie brand or type on some boxes. (For example on an old laptop I had, cdrw would not boot, but cdw would) is all I can think of for your
Quote:
|
You might need to try the 486 version rather than the 686 one.
|
All times are GMT -5. The time now is 07:52 AM. |