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[Mr Christopher Rose <mrchrisrose AT yahoo.com>]

The laptop has a built in modem. I am not sure of its
actual speed, but it should be at least 2400pbs. By
chance, there is a free internet provider here that
supports slow modems like that. If I can get it to
work, I should be able to start adding some software
without having to "hot swap" hard drives. As for the
idea of a 10/100Tnic with a cable connect, that might
not be a bad idea.

Christopher

--- James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net> wrote:

> 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
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