Re: At what point did the Linux kernel start supporting wireless?

From: Bill Davidsen (davidsen_at_deathstar.prodigy.com)
Date: 08/10/05 

Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 16:23:16 GMT

Moe Trin wrote:
> In the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.networking, in article
> <7iUze.404147$cg1.399782@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>,
> The Eighth Doctor wrote:
>
>
>>Actually yes. The laptop is old enough to vote, and currently resources,
>>namely money, are short, as they are this time of year.
>
>
> This is unusual? ;-)
>
>
>>I think there is support for a newer release of the PCMCICA-CS routines
>>however, so I might be able to squeeze that in. I have not tried anything
>
>>from Slackware 9.1 or 10.0, or 10.1 on it as it happens.
>
> Minor problem - Slack 8.0 was the last version to use the 2.2.x kernel,
> and the glibc-2.2 libraries. Slack 9.0 switched to glibc-2.3.1
>
> Assuming the lap top has enough horses (NO distribution has ever retained
> the same footprint - they ALL bloat up), it would probably be easier to
> switch to a more modern distribution. See DistroWatch.com who has GPL
> distributions - last I noticed Slack 10.1 GPL was under US$8, and at least
> five others were under US$2.

Good source. I also run a very old Slack on a laptop, mainly because
it's the most recent thing for which someone else took the trouble to
make a floppy distribution. No CD, no CD port, no CD support in BIOS,
modern kernels don't fit on floppy, etc, etc, etc.

If I had a better reason that "just to prove I can" to do an install, I
would, probably a very bare FC4, and NFS mount the rest of the software.
There's the problem of suspend/resume as well, the 2.6 kernel supports
suspend, but I have never found any machine I owned which would resume.
All of the laptops resume just fine with a 2.4 kernel and APM. 

-- 
bill davidsen
   SBC/Prodigy Yorktown Heights NY data center
   http://newsgroups.news.prodigy.com

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