Hi,
i have got a laptop mounting a Pentium II CPU, and i would like to make it working with my wifi access point. So i installed on it an old version of Suse Linux precisely the 7.0
and i would like to know which kernel should i have to download and compile and which wifi card should be connected to the PCMCIA of my laptop (regarding of type, model, manufacturer). If anyone have experienced this matter, please post me :-)
thank you all!
Why did you install an old
Why did you install an old version of Suse? Linux typically works just fine on older hardware. I have Enlightenment running just fine on a pentium 60.
As for the wireless... check one of the vast number of linux hardware compatibility sites, such as this one.
Use the last ubuntu
You can use variants of ubuntu.
Wifi on pentium II
Well , old suse is better for old pc than ubuntu. Ubuntu and similar distros consumpt too much resources . Dont use it.You dont need latest Kde4 on such old pc. For old Pc is better 2.4 kernel than 2.6 , (also you can try RTlinux patches for it , i have good experience with 2.4 and Rtlinux).
For this old computer you should try Deli linux (new software,old kernel :) ). It gives you what you need.
So next you need a wifi card which is supported in 2.4 kernel. I can confirm that wifi card with Ralink rt61 chipset work very good with my 2.4 kernel , ralink has open source driver and pcmcia cards with it are cheap.(Probably any ralink is good choice).
Deli Linux
http://delili.lens.hl-users.com/
Ralink open source drivers
http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com