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> > Wikipedia says LTEs started at 9.55MHz with 640K RAM,
> > Is yours 386, 486, or pentium?
>
> Pentium

Last was 5400 150MHz.

tomshardware says it does not support cardbus.  There was a docking 
station with ethernet.  2.1GB hard drive.  No USB.

> > > four Toshibas (one Tecra, the rest Satellites).

> Mine is a Tecra 500CDT.  It is my heaviest laptop.

1996, 120MHz, 12" TFT LCD, 800x600, 2MB video RAM.

Linux on the Toshiba Tecra 500CDT
http://home.icequake.net/~nemesis/linuxlaptops/toshiba/tecra500cdt/

Says the PCMCIA controller was designed so you would choose in BIOS 
whether to support 16-bit PCMCIA (PCIC) only, or both 16 and 32 bit, but 
the linux 2.4 and 2.6 kernels were buggy until they fixed it in 2.6.13, 
and you had to choose one or the other.  Does cardbus require kernel 2.4?

Is it your newest laptop?  You don't seem to have any 1024x768 laptops. We 
were given four fixable ones this summer.  (Fixes - remove McAfee, remove 
XP, replace coin battery, replace LCD screen).  And one fully working one. 
Doesn't anyone in your area throw out 10 year old laptops in your 
direction?  Maybe only in rich university towns.  Do you have a local 
freecycle group?

> > Do you have any cardbus cards to try in the Tecra?
>
> No.

Aironet 340 and 350 cards have been selling on ebay for $10-20. My 340 
detects much weaker signals than the orinoco.  The 350 has a stronger 
radio, with a range up to 300 feet in an optimal installation (outdoors?).
340 - 30 milliwatts, 350 100 milliwatts.

The orinoco pcmcia cards are weaker than the 340.

Cardbus DWL-G630 Airplus G 11G with WPA new $20 with shipping (AU), or 
about $13 used with shipping.  Up to 100 meters indoors.  100mW.

SMC had an 11B with 200 mW in 2003.  Three times the normal range for B. 
Has an antenna connector too.  WPA, 128-bit WEP (not that I need these).
Presumably cardbus.

Some USB wireless cards have 500mW power.  1 mile or more (2 km).
Booster antennas start at $9 on ebay (plus shipping) but need a screw 
connector (or some surgery).

The neighbor next door offered use of her connection but her signal is so 
weak I can only get it directly behind her house, with the airo not the 
orinoco.  I am hoping the newer cards will work inside our house. 
Someone brought over a laptop with built-in wireless which detected her 
signal. We experimented with antennas (one was made of a satellite dish) 
and an ethernet bridge run out the window but the 16-bit cards don't pick 
up the signal. I will compare signal strengths using Puppy and the five 
cardbus cards vs the aironet.

> > What three Satellite models do you have?
>
> 110CS, T2130CS, T1950CS

T1950CS - 486 40MHz 
T2130CS - 486 75MHz  528MB hard disk (I have BL1 on a Compaq this speed)
110CS - 586 100MHz  800x600 "giant STN screen" (11"),
"big amount of RAM" (8MB), "huge hard disk" (800 MB)
All have Dual scan supertwist nemate LCDs, 8-bit color, 1MB video RAM
8MB onboard RAM, expandable to 40MB.

> Cheers,
> Steven