Thanks all for your help. I might try installing a newer version. The laptop does have PCMCIA slots and I have managed to get it connected up on the net by using ifconfig and route commands. Seems to work well. This is all new to me but I have learnt a lot in the last week to put the old machine to use again.

With the PCMCIA slots I believe they are a 16 bit slots and not 32 bits which are required for the latest wireless cards, or have I been incorrectly informed? As I do have a wireless network running and it would be great to get wireless working on the old lappy.

Sorry doubled posted.

When you install you might want to consider using jfs filesystem because it should use less CPU then say ext3 or reiserfs. I use it on my PII 400MHz laptop and it works great.

Same here. I use a Orinoco Gold Classic "PC card", 5V, 16 bits. I don't know if old Tinylinux from seul would have support for wireless.

How much memory and hard disk do you have?

If you need a recent system on very low specs, another way would would be NetBSD, very easy to get a barebones system.