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by maleemi
Thu 22 Sep 2005, 05:32
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: Puppy HD install woes
Replies: 13
Views: 17317

Puppy HD install woes

I'm trying to get puppy to work on an old toshiba laptop with no cd-rom or USB. I copied the four files vmlinuz, usr_cram, image.gz and pupxide to a newly formatted 300mb FAT16 partation and used rawrite to create a boot disk from boot2pup.img When I boot from the floppy the kernal vmlinuz and the R...
by maleemi
Wed 21 Sep 2005, 23:52
Forum: Users ( For the regulars )
Topic: Which PCMCIA card for hassle-free 802.11g in Puppy?
Replies: 5
Views: 3451

I think that Laptop may only support 16 bit pcmcia cards not 32 bit CardBus cards so that rules out 802.11g. You may have to search ebay for a 16 bit wireless card and then your speeds may only be aroud 1-4Mbps. My Tecra 500 was built after the CardBus 32bit standard was proposed but before it was ...
by maleemi
Wed 21 Sep 2005, 23:34
Forum: Users ( For the regulars )
Topic: Which PCMCIA card for hassle-free 802.11g in Puppy?
Replies: 5
Views: 3451

Check the Hardware compatibility list on the wikki. I use a Linksys WPC11 Ver 2.0. Puppy automatically uses the orinoco driver. I only had to configure my wireless parameters (essid, mode, key) and use the Puppy Ethernet wizard. I checked out the wikki but it doesn't indicate if the listed cards ar...
by maleemi
Wed 21 Sep 2005, 17:32
Forum: Users ( For the regulars )
Topic: Which PCMCIA card for hassle-free 802.11g in Puppy?
Replies: 5
Views: 3451

Which PCMCIA card for hassle-free 802.11g in Puppy?

Which PCMCIA 802.11g cards do you guys recommend as the most hassle free for use with puppy? I have an old Toshiba Tecra 133mhz that I'd like to get up and running with puppy and will be using it primarily to surf, email and access usergroups. Also, Does skinny puppy have the same networking capabil...