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Hi
A friends daughter has an old windows 98 Laptop, she would like a modern operating system so i am thinking of putting Linux on the machine. The laptop has a wireless D-link card that you plug in the side.
My question is what is the driver support for these cards? Will Linux have the drivers, can i get some?
I am considering the following distributions:
Ubuntu
Kunbuntu
Madrivia
Suse
Thanks A lot
Can you find out the model number of the dlink card?
Yes i am going tomorrow i will let you know.
thanks
If you've got the Windows driver for it you could try NDISwrapper to get it running.
Hi i got the Windows Driver.
It is a D-Link AirPlus XtremeG Wirless Cardbus Adapter DWL-G650
Ubuntu will probably support it tbh.
It seems to have no problem with all the various wifi cards i've had in the past both on-board, PCI and PCMCIA.
I have tried to install ubuntu the bios is to old and i can't find any newer versions.
@FN-Greatermanchester: How can the BIOS be 'too old'? :?
I assume tha you mran that it won't boot from CD, in which case you need to create a boot floppy.
Have you tried PCLinuxOS? Or a lighter version of it for less-able PCs - SAM Linux or TinyMe.
Security! Security! This man wants to use something other than Ubuntu. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by webman
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Ohhhh i could throw a spanner in the linux based works and suggest some kind of BSD based OS.
My server runs FreeBSD but i've never really tried it as a desktop OS and it's wifi support is probably horrid.
According to Ubuntu the BIOS has to be above the year 1999
Presumably you mean you get the following error?
The current workaround for this:Code:PANIC: CPU too old for this kernel
1. Boot the machine from the CD, choose to ‘Rescue a broken system’.
2. Get a shell in your installed system.
3. If /boot contains the generic kernel, then it’s the CD’s /boot; unmount it and mount it to get your machine’s /boot in there.
4. aptitude install linux-generic
5. Reboot and choose the generic kernel in GRUB.