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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, sindi keesan wrote:
> > > Any help will be appreciated
> >
>  Almost certainly
> > you'll have a PCMCIA modem or LAN card.  PCMCIA is not implemented by
> > default in BL.
>
> We have a couple of 486s of this age (one has 2M RAM, the other does not
> usually work so cannot try BL on them) and they do NOT have PCMCIA.  We
> plug in an external modem via the serial port.  Is there any problem in
> using an external modem with BL?
>
No problems at all with external modems that I know of.  In fact, if this
chap has one, he'll be in good shape.  These are usually "hardware modems"
that work well with Linux - no special software or drivers such as are
needed with winmodems.  But having to carry around an external modem sort
of conflicts with the whole idea of having a notebook - it's supposed to
be compact and portable.  Having an external modem means an extra part
(plus its subparts - power supply and serial cable) to have to carry
around.  Anyway, if he does have an external modem any potential problems
with connecting to the ISP should be obviated.

James
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sindi keesan wrote:
> 
> I am hoping Steven can get the older Opera to work with BL2.  

OK, I have some progress to report.  I've tried running 
Opera 6.11 on a generic Slackware 7.1 installation.  I 
get exactly the same problem as in BL2.  So the problem 
does not lie specifically in BL2 -- it's a Slackware 
problem.  I'm surprised this fault is not more widely 
known.  Perhaps people had already moved to Slackware 8.0 
by the time Opera 6.11 came out?  I spend half an hour on 
google trying to find any reference to problems running 
Opera 6.11 on Slack71.  The only one I found related to 
GLX (which, I think, has something to do with 3D video).

Since 6.11 didn't work on Slack71, I decided to download
5.05.  It installed very smoothly and appears to work fine. 
No sign of the 6.11 problem.  I actually prefer 5.05.  It 
is smaller than 6.11 and has a cleaner layout.  Whether this
means it is faster, I don't know. Web pages seemed to be 
downloading more slowly than 6.11, but that could just be 
time-of-day.

I have only spent a few minutes on 5.05, so I need to do a
lot more testing.  But before I do, I want to make sure that
5.05 is going to do what people need.  It seems to do HTTPS
and javascript OK.  What things can 6.11 do that 5.05 can't?
Does anybody know of problems in 5.05?   

Cheers,
Steven