Reply: Santa came early

I have a similar Toshiba laptop that I turned over to my wife for web 
browsing and email. I found that RH 7.3 worked well and that Suse 8 worked 
well and even supported the 16bit netgear wireless card once I turned off 
the kernel PCMCIA support ( simple config file change). Where as RH 8 & 9 
never worked right with my PCMCIA cardbus out of the box. Gnome even works 
ok if I turn off all the options and GUI fluff, the best is still straight x 
with fvwm.

VHF

>Message: 10
>Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 22:05:05 -0700
>From: Richard Steffens <[email protected]>
>Subject: [PDXLUG] Santa came early!
>To: pdxlug <[email protected]>
>Message-ID: <[email protected]>
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed

>A friend of mine has closed an office, and I am now the proud owner of 
>three old computers: two Micron desktops, a 333 MHz Pentium II, and a 400 
>MHz Pentium II, and a Micron laptop(?). The "laptop" probably went by a 
>different designation due to its weight, but will suffice for my purposes. 
>It's a 166 MHz Pentium MMX with 64 Mb of Ram. It dates to somewhere in the 
>mid to late 90's. Came with an ethernet card plugged in, so it can join my 
>home network.

>The native software is Win95, and I have a driver CD, but it doesn't have 
>anything on it related to Linux.

>A Linux-Google search of "Micron TransPort XPE" turned up 10 pages, the 
>most recent being from 2000. The Linux on Laptops page is more promising: 
>the Micron XPE link is to a guy running RH 8 on his machine.

>http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/micron.html

>So, I'm just getting started, and hope to get Linux running on this 
>machine. It's been a couple of years since I installed Linux on anything, 
>the last successful one being RH 8 on my Thinkpad. At the risk of starting 
>a distro war, any recommendations for which one to try on it?

>--
>Regards,

>Dick Steffens
>http://home.comcast.net/~rsteff/