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> I tried to install BL3.50 on another machine from 1995 (486DX 24 MB RAM).
>
> I can't get the network interface card (NIC) to work. It's an Intel 
> EtherExpress PRO/100+ PCI Adapter H/W ver. 008. I have put in eepro100.o 
> from 
> <http://slackware.cs.utah.edu/pub/slackware/slackware-4.0/modules/2.2.6/net/>. 
> (I had to transfer it on diskette. Actually there was room enough on the 
> BL3.50 diskette 2.)
> "insmod eepro100" works. When I try udhcpc it warns about /dev/urandom 
> missing and then does "Sending discover..." for an infinite number of 
> times, or until i break it.
>
> The NIC works on the same computer using Windows 95 and Blueflops Linux 
> 2.0.15. Blueflops does also use udhcpc. (Blueflops can't be installed on 
> my HDD and has problems switching from X to text. BasicLinux works well 
> in these senses.)
>
> What could I do to make my NIC work?

I did get it to work (even with udhcpc) on first try when I used the 
module eepro100.o from 
<http://www.basiclinux.com.ru/add-ons/2_2_26/modules/net/>. The 
Slackware-4.0 module didn't work well for me. These BasicLinux-modules 
doesn't seem to be linked from the homepage.

Then I could download my ash-script myinstall from my website with wget 
and run and get a lot of software installed.

I have an Linksys WRT54GS v1.1 wireless router and I installed 
http://x-wrt.org/ (OpenWRT) on it (the installation went smooth and most 
settings were preserved). I can now log in from both my BL3.50 computers 
on the router via ssh and https (from links2). My idea is to install 
sqlite on the router and do some web development using BL and then 
install the cgi-scripts and database on the router. OpenWRT also uses 
Busybox (but v1.4.2), but misses many help texts and some useful 
commands such as ftpput. There is an amazing amount of useful commands 
and helptexts on the two BL3.50 diskettes.

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