Laptop Woes
My old Toshiba Satellite 1805-S254 has 256 meg DDR PC133 memory and a 20 gig hard drive. The processor is a 996Mhz Pentium III processor. The screen is a beautiful active matrix 15 incher, but the graphics card only supports 1024x796 @ 60Hz.
It has a floppy drive, a DVD/CD rom, and video out/monitor out ports. I was able to bump the RAM to 512, which is the max supportable, and really did not see much of an improvement.
Ubuntu/Kubuntu 8.10 Intrepid would not install without hanging. OpenSuse 11.1 installed but I could not get the LinkSys WPC54G v2 to work. I could not get the D-Link DWLG730AP to work either. Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 LTS installed but would not communicate with the wireless devices. I could not access the D-link with a request to: http://192.168.0.30/. The wireless devices both work on WinXP and they both work with Puppy Linux.
If I could get PuppyLinux to install and run off the hard drive I would be happy. Alas, the install always wants the Live CD. OMFG,WTF??? I’ll find a distro that works with both of my wireless devices and will install properly on the hard drive.
I typed this on Puppy through the Ethernet card through the D-link DWLG730AP through the T-Mobile wireless router through an Ethernet switch and finally through the Westell DSL router.
Laters,
