old laptop how to strip down xubuntu

[duruttye]

I have to check out the puppy linux>wine>SPSS configuration.

For the minimal install: the laptop doesn't have an ethernet card, so if I try a minimal install will the make the usb wireless adapter work? 'cause if not, I didn't do a thing. These days, without the internet...

Oh, yeah, checking out ebay is okay, but shipping anything in Romania is not okay at all...

Fluxbuntu question:
cannot make the wireless adapter work, lspci shows it, the network-configuration tool sees it, but after a short connection it always drops it.
No idea why...

This is something like the last lines in dmesg:

phy0 -> rt2x00usb_vendor_request: error - vendor request 0x06 failed for offset .....

...many times
any ideas?

[PhilipGanchev]

The laptop might also have a PCMCIA port. If so, you can get a PCMCIA-ethernet dongle.

As for light browsers, there are Dillo and Links graphical (links2 -g).

[fooman]

for a minuscule install, fast & very lightweight os....give masonux a try. based on ubuntu and using lxde....its super light. i run it on my netbook and i am impressed.

needs 256 ram for the graphical installer....the os itself can run on less. see here for info:

http://sites.google.com/site/masonux/home

[coolbrook]

You bumped a really old thread. Anyways, Puppy Linux 4.3 was just released today. I downloaded it and will see how it goes on one of my old systems. I didn't care too much for the installation of an older version. The current one is running on kernel 2.6.30.5.