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Installing Linux on a Gateway Solo 2500xl Laptop


Hello my name is Patrick Bureau (pbureau@home.com) and I have created this web page in hopes
that it might help someone else like I, whom may have a Gateway Solo 2500xl laptop and want
information on possible problems I have encountered and how I resolved them.
This is not a HOWTO document, but more a page to point out and show
how easy this laptop is to configure with Slackware 7.0 Linux OS

My Gateway Solo 2500xl is composed of the following components:
(click on any item below to read about how it was reconized/installed with Slackware 7)

Pentium II - 333Mhz with 128MB ram,
Matshita DVD/CROM w/ ZV-DVD Pcmcia card by kingmax
LS-120 Superdisk (internal Floppy drive)
Neomagic 128 w/2MB ram videocard on 13.2" LCD screen
Stick-mouse on keyboard and ps/2external mouse
PCMCIA Bus
3com 3c589_cs pcmcia network card
Xircom CM56T 56K pcmcia modem
Neomagic 256AV (rev2) Sound System


Web Page designed using:


Web Site is Using Slackware 7.0