Re: Lombard Recommendations

[Kenneth Vann]

On: Wed, 8 Dec 2004  Andrew inquired:
>
>I just bought a used 333MHz Lombard for my daughter to
>use, mostly at home, along with a new Orinoco Gold
>card to access the Airport network.
>
>First off, will the Orinoco card (Proxim - brand new)
>work as an actual airport card, or should I start
>hunting for drivers?
>
>Snip
>
>Andrew

If you have the new Proxim Classic Gold Card, Model 8410WD then under OS
8.6 to OS 9.2.2 it will work with Airport software. Other Proxim cards that
are new production wont work with Airport Software, but may work with some
commercial software.

Only 802.11b cards will work under the Clasic OS.

Older Lucent WaveLan, Lucent Orinoco, Agree Orinoco, and YDL Wireless cards
will work with the built in Airport Software under OS 8.6 to 9.2.2.

For use on OS X  you will need third party software for the Proxim Clasic
Gold Card. Commercial or Freeware.

Or you can use a 802.11g Apple compatible PC Card from many sources, if you
put your PowerBook on OS X.

My personal opinion would be to use OS 9.x for a PowerBook for a young
child. Less tech support problems for Dad.

See my Wireless FAQ for more information. Links for all the wireless
software you will need.

Ken Vann

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See my FAQ for what you need at http://home.earthlink.net/~kjvann/



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Re: Lombard Recommendations

[John C. Swanson]

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From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 14:01
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Subject: Lombard Recommendations

Hello all.

I just bought a used 333MHz Lombard for my daughter to
use, mostly at home, along with a new Orinoco Gold
card to access the Airport network.

Second, the Lombard has a 20GB drive and 512MB of RAM,
what would be the best OS for this machine?  My plan
is to just put Panther on it, but am worried about it
being too slow.  Should I stick to OS 9?  It will
mainly be used for doing elementary school research
(web) and writing in Word.  I have Office 2001 and
Office 2004, so can go either OS 9 or OS X on this.

Andrew
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I run 10.3.6 on a 400Mhz Pismo with 576mb Ram and 20GB hard drive, and
it works fine for me.

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Re: Lombard Recommendations

[Mary Russell]

We have 10.3.6 on our lombard 333.  Works fine.  No problems.
Mary
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello all.
I just bought a used 333MHz Lombard for my daughter to
use, mostly at home, along with a new Orinoco Gold
card to access the Airport network.
First off, will the Orinoco card (Proxim - brand new)
work as an actual airport card, or should I start
hunting for drivers?
Second, the Lombard has a 20GB drive and 512MB of RAM,
what would be the best OS for this machine?  My plan
is to just put Panther on it, but am worried about it
being too slow.  Should I stick to OS 9?  It will
mainly be used for doing elementary school research
(web) and writing in Word.  I have Office 2001 and
Office 2004, so can go either OS 9 or OS X on this.
Finally, any tips for making a Lombard speedier (or at
least less slow) under Panther?  Settings for video or
other things, rather than actual hardware upgrades
would be appreciated.  I'm not looking at making this
thing into a speed demon, just want adequate web
browsing and good application performance for writing
and very light graphics (clip art and jpegs in word
docs).  Knowing kids, it will probably also be used
for web-based game play (she's addicted to Neopets).
I paid $350 for the Lombard including the CD drive and
two supposedly good batteries.
Andrew
 

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Lombard Recommendations

[Andrew]

Hello all.

I just bought a used 333MHz Lombard for my daughter to
use, mostly at home, along with a new Orinoco Gold
card to access the Airport network.

First off, will the Orinoco card (Proxim - brand new)
work as an actual airport card, or should I start
hunting for drivers?

Second, the Lombard has a 20GB drive and 512MB of RAM,
what would be the best OS for this machine?  My plan
is to just put Panther on it, but am worried about it
being too slow.  Should I stick to OS 9?  It will
mainly be used for doing elementary school research
(web) and writing in Word.  I have Office 2001 and
Office 2004, so can go either OS 9 or OS X on this.

Finally, any tips for making a Lombard speedier (or at
least less slow) under Panther?  Settings for video or
other things, rather than actual hardware upgrades
would be appreciated.  I'm not looking at making this
thing into a speed demon, just want adequate web
browsing and good application performance for writing
and very light graphics (clip art and jpegs in word
docs).  Knowing kids, it will probably also be used
for web-based game play (she's addicted to Neopets).

I paid $350 for the Lombard including the CD drive and
two supposedly good batteries.

Andrew

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