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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, Mr Christopher Rose wrote:

> Thanks to everyone on this listserv for your patience
> with me and my frustrating little obsolete computer.
> My Toshiba WinBook XP is now a Toshiba LinBook XP
> running the most recent version of BL3. Everything
> booted nicely and even the ps/aux stick in the middle
> of the keyboard worked correctly when I typed
> "startx". Now then, until I can get a wireless card
> for both my DSL modem and my laptop, I will just need

You're in for a whole new challenge if you want to get wireless going on
this laptop. The BL kernel is not set up for it for one thing: you'd need
to use a different kernel. Then, if you get a newer wireless card there
likely won't be a BL3 kernel compatible module/driver. In fact there might
not be *any* Linux compatible module/driver: wireless is still notoriously
difficult under Linux. If you want to network it for file transfers and
the like, the path of least resistance will be to either get yourself a
10baseT NIC with a common chipset and hook it to a wired network (or
network it with another computer so hooked) or, if you're not too
concerned about speed, do a serial connection with a null modem cable to
another machine that's hooked to the 'net and that acts like a gateway.

James