[Sheflug] laptop advent 7240

[fred <fred.dodd [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

Just fixed an old lap top for a friend, then he let me have it for £50
its an old Advent 7240 Intel Celron 400mhz 64mb but will increase this
with 128mb + 32 on board.

Well a student at work is vary good with Slackware so I had a 9.1 v
installed it but had trouble with it detecting and working with sound.

Then I went back to my old and trusted Mandrake, would it install 9.2,
"yes" but still no sound and infrared networking.

loaded irda-utils ---

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I have still kept windoze 98 as the first boot partition, but I am
asking if anyone knows a quick "how to" on infrared install for my
Mandrake System 9.2 system as:

V.90 K56 flex modem HSP PCI Modem

Winbond Infrared Controller Network Adapter


sound Yamaha OPC3 SAx 

tried this with sndconfig but no such luck.
checked the IRQ setting and DMA but sndconfig gives limited options not
sure if they can be changed on the sound board inside the laptop.

please try and send me your own working experience that will work. 

found the AEI USB to Lan Adapter (ex NTL) to work with MDK 9.2

well wish you all a happy Christmas & New year.

rgds

fred





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