I you wanted to try the earlier pupversion, mentioned by Caneri, you could just boot it with the prefix puppy pfix=ram to see if your networking works OK, then if it did, you could install it frugally alongside pup3.01 without problem, providing you put it's vmlinuz & initrd.gz files in a separ...

No. I don't have a separate test machine. Just this Toshiba. The version I downloaded was the latest (3.01??). You mention using "puppy pfix-ram". What does this do? Is this something I enter from a command line? I'm downloading the zdrv_213.sfs file right now. Where on a Linux machine am...

what version? and look back one post Edit..I see we are posting in real time. Go back and see if 2.13 works...do you have a test machine? Use a puppy pfix=ram and try 2.13 Eric No. I don't have a separate test machine. Just this Toshiba. The version I downloaded was the latest (3.01??). You mention...

JackDeth, I recently loaded Puppy on a Gateway Solo P2. I had to go back to 2.13 to get the pcmcia 3comm to work. Try 2.13 and see if your 3comm is recognized. My driver was there and worked well. EDIT: If it does work the drivers are in zdrv_2.13.sfs Eric Thanks for the insight! I was afraid I mig...

Two useful sites, for linux on toshiba laptops, are: http://www.linux-laptop.net/ http://newsletter.toshiba-tro.de/main/index.html From the latter came this link: http://newsletter.toshiba-tro.de/main/main/MachineInfoAusPrint.php?Info=6 Don't use the PC-BUS option in BIOS setup. This is for a toshi...

your problem is that these old computers only has 16bit pcmcia, whereas modern pc's have 32bit. The new standard is refered to as "Cardbus", and there is no appearent way of telling the two apart, though sometimes the manufacturer writes it on the cover. You can use 16 bit it a modern com...

Please keep in mind I'm totally new to Linux! I've been trying to get some version of Linux working on a Toshiba Satellite Pro 430CDT for quite awhile now. Keeping in mind these things only have a 1.2 GB hard drive, it's been hard to find an installation small enough to work. I found an ancient vers...