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Came with NT and Win95, 266Mhz, very expensive in 1997, excellent keyboard 
and LCD screen.  This model had no onboard modem but some have a linmodem. 
BL2, 2.4 kernel.  There is an BIOS update available, a linux image. It was 
rather tricky to remove NT (not working, used an XP-type boot menu) but 
leave 95 (bootgui=0), and then get it to boot to DOS.

1.  pcmcia modems detected at ttyS0, sometimes work, sometimes no dial 
tone.  (Puppy detected only ttyS1, which never works).  The computer has a 
comport (com2?) and I think also infrared.

2.  sound is supposed to be cs4232, ISA, but when I insmod everything, 
including io irq and dma, 'no such device'.  Puppy acts similarly (I think 
if I manually modprobe the modules with parameters it still won't work).
(I will try Win95 for sound).

3.  USB port (with flash drive) works fine in Puppy but crashes BL.  I 
read something about a kernel bug, PCI IRQ sharing.  uhci and usb-uhci 
give different error messages but both crash.  'uhci.c port count 
misdetected?  forcing to 2 ports' (crash, power off) usb-uhci 
'connect_debounce failed, port 1 disabled'  (crash, power off)

The video (framebuffer, 2MB) and external floppy drive work perfectly.
No crashes other than from USB problem.

Sindi Keesan