Just found this in a box and according to some Googling, its TPD is 6.8w!!! Got Debian on there with LXDE but I don’t need another laptop. The big drawback is that it has a 32bit processor. It has a 100mbit network port, USB2.0, 2gb RAM and WiFi which isn’t working but is listed in ip -a

I’ve used it to add wireless capabilities to my ancient Brother laser printer but it was extremely slow ( 15 mins before a text page started printing, PER PAGE)

  • afk_strats@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    11·
    6 days ago

    that’s a great idea re: music. i use a ton of Chromecast audios and, when Google “forgot to update the certs” I was SOL

    • haverholm@kbin.earth
      3·
      6 days ago

      +1 re WiFi. As I recall, with older laptops you may have to dig around to find some WiFi drivers for Debian — but they’re most likely there, just not in the default repo.

      • poweruser@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        6·
        6 days ago

        In addition this was back when airlines had strong restrictions on wireless being used on planes, so many devices had physical switches to turn WiFi/Bluetooth off. Maybe it’s still turned off

      • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        5 days ago

        Can confirm. A lot of the old wifi drivers are missing from Debian 32 bit and OP will have to dig those up. I have an ancient Dell, 32 bit laptop I use when I am reading before bedtime. It didn’t have to be anything super nice, as I just read on that laptop. I installed Debian 32 bit, but the drivers were not available, and being as it was just barely a viable laptop that I’m trying to squeeze the last drops of usefulness out of it, I didn’t bother trying to find drivers. I dropped back and installed MX Linux. So, yeah, OP might need to do a little leg work.