Linux Setup

08-20-2001

Until now I've been happily stumbling along using my old laptop, Win98 and netstumbler, but I was thinking of changing over to linux, to improve my skills with the OS and give me a little project to work on. I am not completely new to Linux, but I obviously want to be able to get back up and stumbling fairly quickly, so my question is this:
Bearing in mind my laptop is a measly P166MMX with 40MB of ram, whats the best Distro to use, and exactly what software will I need to get going again? I have a Melco Buffalo PCM-L11 Card, with which I have been using Orinoco drivers on the windows setup. Any success stories with similar builds out there? Is it even worth the hassle?

Cheers

rt

08-21-2001

Personally i've been using both windows and linux, set them up as a dual boot and things work pretty good. Keep in mind however that some of the current tools don't support hermes chips. I use slackware myself, works good and is quite configurable. As for software check out the howto here http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/ that'll get you up and running. I find it's a little easier to find wlans using netstumbler, then use linux to probe it harder then you can with windows. Works good if you happen to find any wep enabled ones.

08-20-2001	#1 (permalink)
Posts: n/a	Linux Setup Until now I've been happily stumbling along using my old laptop, Win98 and netstumbler, but I was thinking of changing over to linux, to improve my skills with the OS and give me a little project to work on. I am not completely new to Linux, but I obviously want to be able to get back up and stumbling fairly quickly, so my question is this: Bearing in mind my laptop is a measly P166MMX with 40MB of ram, whats the best Distro to use, and exactly what software will I need to get going again? I have a Melco Buffalo PCM-L11 Card, with which I have been using Orinoco drivers on the windows setup. Any success stories with similar builds out there? Is it even worth the hassle? Cheers rt

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08-21-2001	#2 (permalink)
Posts: n/a	Personally i've been using both windows and linux, set them up as a dual boot and things work pretty good. Keep in mind however that some of the current tools don't support hermes chips. I use slackware myself, works good and is quite configurable. As for software check out the howto here http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/ that'll get you up and running. I find it's a little easier to find wlans using netstumbler, then use linux to probe it harder then you can with windows. Works good if you happen to find any wep enabled ones.