[Durham] Fwd: Checking mini pci board on old laptop

[Richard Patterson]

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> From: David Walland <davidwalland at googlemail.com>
> Subject: Checking mini pci board on old laptop
> Date: 14 August 2014 11:31:29 BST
> To: durham-owner at mailman.lug.org.uk
> 
> Hi,
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> I have an ancient laptop I am playing with (a Toshiba 1710 CDS, for those interested).  It came without even an Ethernet ability, although it had a mini pci telephone modem.  I’ve acquired a telephone modem and Ethernet mini pci card which fits perfectly.  I have two problems due to the fact that it doesn’t appear to be seen by Xubuntu nor to work:
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> a)      The internal plug to the actual Ethernet port on the laptop – which fixes into the board - is not “handed” and I have no idea how to work out which way is correct (it doesn’t work either way round).
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> b)      I do not know how to check whether the system can even see the board and whether it is loading drivers for it.
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> I have just acquired a PCMCIA ethernet board for the machine but I’d still like to understand how to check out the mini pci board and get it working.  The machine was obviously intended to be able to be able to be fitted with an upgrade like this, as it has the port and cable fitted as standard.  You will understand that this is being done for fun and to learn, so “get a decent computer” is simply not relevant to what I’m doing.
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> It even runs (well walks is probably nearer the truth) on Xubuntu 12.04 with its 6 GB HDD and 288 MB memory.  Eventually I intend to use it to drive my wife’s kiln (something it is entirely capable of) which will mean putting a much lighter version of Linux on it, so I need to learn as much as I can in the meantime.
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> Any help or advice will be gratefully received.
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> Regards
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>  
> David Walland
> 

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