Refurbished Laptop Acquired, distribution change
Monday, 28. January 2008, 23:37:51
This past two weeks, I found a great deal on a refurbished laptop. The machine is a Compaq Armada E700, and is equipped with 384MB of RAM, 18GB IBM hard drive, ATi (now AMD) Rage Mobility, and a Pentium III running at 500Mhz.
I have installed Mandriva 2008 on this machine, and it performs beautifully. For Wi-Fi access, I purchased a Linksys (Cisco) Compact-G Wireless USB adapter, and thanks to Ratech, the adapter is Linux compatible. (The Linksys adapter uses the rt73 driver and firmware, which is best configured on Mandriva and PCLinuxOS, of which is derived from Mandriva).
Because of this, I have finally done away with the dialup connection. :-)
I have installed Mandriva 2008 on this machine, and it performs beautifully. For Wi-Fi access, I purchased a Linksys (Cisco) Compact-G Wireless USB adapter, and thanks to Ratech, the adapter is Linux compatible. (The Linksys adapter uses the rt73 driver and firmware, which is best configured on Mandriva and PCLinuxOS, of which is derived from Mandriva).
Because of this, I have finally done away with the dialup connection. :-)
WIDGETIZE