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Nice. I recently tried a few small distros on a P166MMX with 80MB of RAM. The best one turned out to be DSL. Unfortunately, I could only get wifi using Win2K
by forinti 4y ago
Nice. I recently tried a few small distros on a P166MMX with 80MB of RAM.
The best one turned out to be DSL.
Unfortunately, I could only get wifi using Win2K because of the driver and then IE can't handle current SSL protocols and most sites don't work.
I really liked using SPARCStations back in the day, and the amount of software available on them was probably a lot less than what even DSL offers. I guess we've become used to having a lot of software very easily available, so retro hardware seems a bit dull.
- goosedragons 4y agoDoes NDISwrapper still exist/work? I used to use that back in the day to use my WiFi adapter on Linux using the Windows driver.
- the_only_law 4y agoIt exists, not sure about works. I wonder how out of date it is. I haven’t heard of anyone using it in recent times, and I imagine the NDIS version used by the driver is somewhat old. It’s been quite a while since I had the honor of dealing with the wonderful NDIS docs, so I’m not sure how much of issue that would be