Is that more 10/100 cards are PC-Card and the old machines are really only PCMCIA. There is a difference and a cause for the card to not work (in any OS.)
Name names and tell what make/model that 10/100 card is?
As to LOAF's, there are aplenty.
Bob
I have an older laptop (Thinkpad 380D) I am playing with.
With 150MHz Pentium, 80MB ram(max), and a 2.1G HDD, I am limited in OSs I can use. 98SE works fine other than new
10/100 Ethernet card is not recognized. Supposed to be backward compatible with PCMCIA and Windows 95.It is not being recognized. If I can't resolve this, I want to go
Linux of some type. Damn Small Linux sounds good (actually, any 1 disc system would work) other than there is no "Boot from CD" option. So I need an OS that has a bootable floppy. This has kept me from booting Knoppix to try to resolve the hardware issue. Any ideas? chuck

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