Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 06:01:08 +0000
From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: [LIB] Just got a 50ct
From: greg ehrendreich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I just got a 50ct from my sister. Stock, no upgrades. Pretty cool. But
it comes sans floppy, sans cradle, (but it does have the headphone
adapter...). With working (though kinda short life-span) battery and AC
adapter. My landlord has a 110, with a cradle, but also no floppy. The
cradle is not backwards compatible, of course.
anyhow, I pretty much have two generations of these guys to play with, if I
really knew what to do with them. Anyhow here's where I've (barely) gotten
so far with the 50:
I can't get it to install the drivers for my Belkin 802.11b card (f5d6020
ver.2), or run a hell of a lot of anything actually. I think the 95
install is whacked and there really isn't any way to fix it, far as I can
tell. Just tells me that I'm missing .dll's every time I try to do
anything.
Check to make sure that's not a cardbus Belkin card. The 50 only supports
a 16 bit bus, and cardbus requires the 32 bit bus of the 100/110 models.
Check my recent post on this very subject, a recommended Belkin card, and
how to identify a cardbus PC card:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg15742.html
BTW: You'll have a lot fewer problems with drivers if you install W98SE on
your system, as it comes out of the box with many that support hardware of
that 'later early' vintage of such equipment.
I'd like to just install linux onto it, but all the instructions I can seem
to find online use a boot floppy.
There's quite a few people knowledgeable about Linux for Libbys on the list.
I'm not one. Maybe someone else can chime in here.
I have the following assets to work with: 3com megahertz (3ccfe574bt) lan
pc card and dongle
CF I/II adapter and about a gig of CF cards
Any suggestions for what the best way to go about attacking this sucker?
Can I install an OS off of a CF card? Some DSL-derivative maybe?
I don't think the very limited Lib BIOS will permit booting off anything but
the FDD and HDD.
Alternative question: If I were to spend any money at all, should I? Can
I buy a floppy for it somewhere? Would that help? Does it matter?
You can get FDDs on EBay for $15 and less these days. They do come in handy
when you can't boot off of a HDD. I don't use mine much these days, but
it's been the only way I've managed to fix a number of problems in the past
several years.
Matt
Wanted: 110 motherboard or bare bones 110 system
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