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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
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  • Subject: Re: [BL] a very strange laptop
  • Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 20:38:25 +0000 (UTC)

On Wed, 11 May 2005, David Moberg wrote:

----- Original Message -----
From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>

This is a 'b' 2.4GHz 11Mbit - we were told this is the slowest. Do
we need a newer card? Would 2.2.16 support something that is still
compatible with other hardware? The b's are cheaper at ebay.

2.2.16 can't even handle 802.11b wireless cards IIRC.

So the NET_RADIO module would be for older cards than that?


I should have expected the X2
since it is a 1997 computer, the year they had three 56K standards
battling it out.

My hardware modem came from '98, it was originally X2 but I upgraded
it to v.90 with a flash utility.
I upgraded several X2 hardware modems but never a winmodem.


Is cardmgr not a program with library dependencies?

I forgot about that. You probably just need libc5 and ld.

A better question would be, "why don't you just use pcmcia.tgz"?
Or just cardmgr from SW71.


We were thinking of putting on BL3 anyway to use with dosemu since
the later version was not working last we checked (no A or S in
CLI).

Have you gotten dosemu to work?

In BL3 if I add bash, needed for the install routine, it works fine. In BL2, last year, we had a buggy version for libc6 (a previous libc6 may work better) in which three keys don't work except in X. I am told my partner's text editor does not work properly in dosemu, but it makes a lot of direct hardware calls. A DOS CAD program works okay. WP for DOS uses Function keys so you cannot use them - it switches terminals on you instead. Something would need remapping (change to vt 11-14 and type chvt 11), or use WP in X, which I am not going to do - I hate the colors instead of underlines. It won't work right on the MDA monitor either because mdacon does not do underlines. So I continue to work in DOS.


>
Do we need to worry about firewall stuff if someone else has set up
the DSL line properly?

No. You're not running any servers, are you?
No, except we might again try httpd some day.

I don't recall if Steven added a wireless section to the pcmcia
setup. Perhaps if not, he could post at his site an expanded file
containing that and what I got working for the pcmcia CF adaptor
(the generic version, not the manuf specific one). Was there
something specific needed from the BL3 kernel to do PCMCIA? Would
BL2 kernel also work? Could I compile a 2.2.16 that would work and
also do wireless ethernet? (Once I fix my symlinks).

I think PCI support was all that was needed in the older kernels for
PCMCIA, since the modules came in a separate package.

David

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