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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

I have a linksys 'combo' PCMCIA 10MBit ethernet card (requires pcnet-cs.o, 
I think, the missing dongle for which supposedly supposedly had both RJ 
and BNC connectors) for which I found a Farallon (3c589cs_o) BNC dongle 
that physically fits.  Are they likely to work together?

If not, I won't bother hunting up a BNC cable and terminator. 
We are about to put linux on laptops.  It can be done via parallel 
transfer cable and/or parallel port zip drive (just got another for $2 at 
a yard sale).

The laptop with the card came with Redhat 7 in 1.2G plus a 128MB swap 
partition (for 16MB RAM) which I will replace with a 16MB swap file
and use the 128MB for BL while we try to puzzle out Redhat (when you exit 
fvwm it gives you another GUI login prompt, and the 800MB don't appear to 
contain much in the way of applications, no X programs unless you count 
the calculator and utilities, no source code).  It is predictably set up 
to boot and load various logging programs and crond and atd and gmp and 
cardmgr and USB without asking, so 5MB of RAM is already used.  Someone 
suggested editing init.d to change runlevels so X would not start.
There is a line (in sysinit.d) that I think says to load a bunch of 
programs in another directory - can I remark that out to stop loading the 
logging programs, etc.?


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