-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday, 2013-08-11 at 22:19 +0200, I wrote:
Hi,
I got an ancient laptop from a friend; he thinks that with only 512 MiB of RAM it is worthless ;-)
It has a "Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz" CPU and the video is "Intel Corporation i845" from "Uniwill Computer Corp". The doc says "Intel® Extreme Graphics"
In case anyone wants to know, the laptop is an "Airis GEA N619", manufactured I guess around 2002. It has lots of connectors - except the one I would like to have, a serial port -. It has 4 usb, pcmcia, firewire, printer, S-Video, VGA, flash card (SD/MMC/MS/MS), eth0, telephone jack (modem/fax), DVD RW, PS/2, speakers and microphone (no web-cam), audio line in/out. Heavy, listed at 3.5 KG. It sure was a beauty, I guess they paid a lot of it when new. Now... Battery is missing. Had to replace BIOS battery. Hard disk (20GB) is broken, but I could find a new one (IDE) of 80 GB. I added to it a wifi nano adapter, on a USB plug, "ASUSTek ASUS EZ N Network Adapter". Works out of the box, which has "Linux supported" on it. And less than 10€. I want to use it to take care of downloads, instead of leaving my big desktop running. My internet is slow, downloading a dvd take days. If I need space I can add an external disk over usb. Proved that 500MB is enough for openSUSE 12.3 - but I added 6GB of swap (which it is not using). I installed LXDE desktop. Besides the solved video problem, the only thing I know that fails is that on hibernation I have to replug the wlan nano thing, to restart networking. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 12.3 x86_64 "Dartmouth" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlIIOrAACgkQtTMYHG2NR9Ue5ACaA2hvTtVItX/K2awBhOGFCSRk qP8An1SZWjr+GRye6tUcis52hLDrlMF2 =hdnL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----