[mdlug] wireless on older laptop

[David Lee Lambert]

I have a Compaq Armada m700 as well (actually I'm on my 3rd one... the screen 
on the first one got cracked from sitting under luggage,  and the internal 
power-supply on the second eventually died).  I'm using a Netgear 802.11b 
PCMCIA card with a "Broadcom Corporation BCM43XG (rev 01)" chipset with 
pretty good results.

I run Debian Etch on it.  

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On Tuesday 16 March 2010 14:31, Dean Durant wrote:
> Hello, I have a compaq armada M700, 192 MB ram, Pentium 3. I had Mandrake
> on it but I blitzed that out trying to install Ubuntu 9.1 or whatever the
> latest is. Live Ubuntu was pretty slow. There was some problem installing
> it (ext4 over ext3 or something) but I should try again.
>
>
> The toughest thing is the wireless. It isn't built in. I would have to go
> external. Either PCMCIA or USB. Is there a particular brand or model people
> have had good luck with?
>
> I bought this Fast Netz ralink rt73 or rt2500, something link that, never
> once thinking about compatibility. But I can buy something else.
>
>
> Has anyone used damn small with wireless ?
>
>
> Thanks, Dean
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