[GLLUG] satellite 2545XCDT

Caleb Cushing xenoterracide at gmail.com
Fri Mar 16 20:58:30 EDT 2007


I'm glad your helping her it's more effort than I want to take and I told
her as much before she volunteered to take it.

On 3/16/07, Richard Houser <rick at divinesymphony.net> wrote:
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> Julie,
>
> Once you've looked into the unit a little, bring the laptop down to one
> of the meetings.  I might be able to give you a hand getting the cardbus
> working so you can use PC cards for networking.  I also have a known
> good cardbus ethernet card I can bring for testing if we don't get
> anywhere on that one.
>
> I wouldn't be surprised if you have something like a device resource
> conflict that's just keeping it from working (had those issues before on
> a previous laptop, never tested this one).  USB is a bit processor
> intensive for a 300MHz class machine, so I wouldn't put too much effort
> into getting that stable before working on the cardbus issues for a while.
>
> I'd love to help out, if for nothing else than practice for the junkpile
> wars at Penguicon.  It's been a long time since I touched anything with
> an ISA bus :).
>
> Jeremy Gransden wrote:
> > it is yours then. Ill send you an email next time im able to come up
> > that way. I live in Redford so i dont make it to many meetings. but i
> > need to get there in the next couple of weeks because i have stuff for
> > penguicon.
> > On Mar 15, 2007, at 9:45 PM, Julie Code wrote:
> >
> >> Jeremy,
> >>        Hi, I think I may be interested.  I have a AMD K6 but a
> >> desktop.  I think I would have use for webbrowsing on it.... i know it
> >> is prett y funny to want something so old, but I think I may have some
> >> use for it. I cannot afford a new laptop right now to save my soul.
> >>
> >>
> >> Julie
> >>
> >>
> >>> From: Jeremy Gransden <jeremy at gransdenonline.com>
> >>> To: linux-user at egr.msu.edu
> >>> Subject: [GLLUG] satellite 2545XCDT
> >>> Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 21:28:39 -0400
> >>>
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> I have a Toshiba Satellite 2545XCDT with a AMD k6 333mz laptop. 4
> >>> gig  hd 14 in screen. with a cdrom built in that  I have absolutely
> >>> no use  for (its getting replaced by a beat up T42). I am looking for
> >>> a good  home to give it to. The machine has damn small linux on it
> >>> now. The  only problems that i have run into are:
> >>>
> >>> cannot get the pccard slots to work (tried both damnsmall linux, and
> >>> freebsd 6) but maybe someone with more gusto than I will get it to
> work.
> >>>
> >>> I have a usb ethernet adapter that works sometimes (dont know the
> >>> model but i will include it with the lappy). What i mean by
> >>> sometimes  is, if you use for general web browsing, it is fine. As
> >>> soon as you  try to download anything, the connection dies. But this
> >>> may be  another easy fix.
> >>>
> >>> If this is truly something that you can use, let me know and it is
> >>> yours free.
> >>>
> >>> thanks,
> >>> jeremy
> >>>
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