Need distro for laptop (300mhz)

[horndude]

anything will run on it, but the results will vary greatly

KDE and GNOME both use up lots of RAM given the chance, if it isnt there then it uses swap space on the hard drive which means you end up being I/O bound all the time.........wanna wait 3-5 minutes for firefox to open and run? Firefox itself will use 200mb quite easily if you let it.

the trick here is to use apps that dont use much RAM, and stay away from bloated libraries and API's

lastly, one more time, please go here:
http://www.tuxmobil.org

click on laptops and check your freakin hardware, linux has a hard enough time keeping up with all the desktop hardware, laptops use lots of special and weird stuff

 

[Skuzzle]

ooh well ubuntu seems to operate quite smooth on it. Took a long time to install, but loads and acts like a quick operating system.

Just having major issues with the xircom re-100 pcmcia network adapter and the linksys usb wireless adapter

Any1 got 1 of these 2 working.. the linksys is most important (its a WUSB54GSv2)

 

[jakec]

Hey Skuzzle,

this is for your Linksys Wireless usb adapter

root terminal with tail -f /var/log/syslog
root another terminal make uninstall of old ndiswrapper
plug wusb54gs
localhost kernel: usb 3-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
mkdir wusb54gs
copy Zindows 2 sys files to ~wusb54gs
copy everything from drivers directory of linksys CD to wusb54gs

unpack and go to ndiswrapper1-8
make
make install
you will see last line
install -m 644 ndiswrapper.8 /usr/share/man/man8

# ndiswrapper -v
utils version: 1.8
driver version: 1.14
vermagic: 2.6.11-6mdk 686 gcc-3.4
# ls -l wusb54gs/
total 104
-rw-rw-r-- 1 myntl myntl 29184 Apr 25 00:49 RNDISMPK.sys
-rw-rw-r-- 1 myntl myntl 13824 Apr 25 00:49 usb8023k.sys
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 7419 Nov 11 15:57 WUSB54GS.cat*
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 6237 Nov 11 15:57 WUSB54GS.inf*
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 7423 Nov 11 15:57 WUSB54GSv2.cat*
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 31845 Nov 11 15:58 WUSB54GSv2.inf*
# ndiswrapper -i wusb54gs/WUSB54GSv2.inf
Installing wusb54gsv2
# ndiswrapper -l
Installed drivers:
wusb54gsv2 invalid driver!
# ls -l /etc/ndiswrapper/wusb54gsv2/
13B1:0014.F.conf wusb54gsv2.inf
# cp wusb54gs/*.sys /etc/ndiswrapper/wusb54gsv2/
# ndiswrapper -l
Installed drivers:
wusb54gsv2 driver installed, hardware present
# modprobe ndiswrapper

# iwconfig
sit0 no wireless extensions.

Warning: Driver for device wlan0 recommend version 18 of Wireless Extension,
but has been compiled with version 17, therefore some driver features
may not be available...

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSIDff/any
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power:25 dBm
RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B
Encryption keyff
Power Managementff
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0


#ndiswrapper -m

Source(es): http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?p=2216850

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=356315

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=87991


Hope this Helps,

Jake

 

[evelmunkey]

would ubuntu run on it ? - I've used before and liked it.. only moved to fedora for kde and as a trial. I'd be happy with gnome on the lappy if ubuntu will work ok
also have you heard of alinux ? They state 486 with 64mb ram as min spec But it looks quite graphical

You could get Kubuntu, the KDE version of ubuntu.

 

[Skuzzle]

tried kubuntu but it seems buggy compared to ubuntu.. and i cant figure out why.. just doesnt work right for me.

Anywho.. i tried that guide for my linksys, but i think its down to it being usb 2 and my laptop is 1.1 it seems to not work.. at all, lol

So any1 know of a pcmcia adapter that will work off the prism setup.. i.e. plug in, install ubuntu and it works right out, no fiddeling ?