[Sderby] Linux on an old laptop revisited.

[Roger Whiteley]

On Thursday 04 March 2004 16:57, Graham Hamblin wrote:
This might sound like an off the wall question, which ISP are you using?,  if 
you are using freeserve and have a withheld number, remember to prefix the 
freeserve dialout number with 1470.  

I had all sorts of problems including being unable to get on IRC simply 
because I forgot to prefix the number..
just a thought

regards
Roger Whiteley
> Hi
>
> About a week ago I posted asking for advice on putting Linux on an HP
> OmniBook 5700CT because all my installs kept crashing out.   The answer
> to that was 49Mb of memory which was not enough for the latest versions
> of Linux.   When I got Slackware on all it would run was fvwm which was
> disappointing.
>
> I managed to recover SuSE Linux 7 Pro which I had given to my son in law
> and it went on in text mode without a problem.   After the install I
> put KDE on and configured it all, took a bit of jiggling, but it now
> runs KDE using XGA and it all looks pretty impressive.
>
> I now just have one problem.   Using Netscape and  K-Mail I can pop mail
> from my server but it absolutely refuses to send SMTP in either.   In
> Netscape it keeps asking for a password although none is set.   I have
> racked my brain and can't come up with an answer.  Can you?
>
> Poking around on the web I was actually able to get a full clour HP
> service manual for the box which detailed how to strip it down to the
> last nut and bolt.   I was impressed.
>
> Thanks in anticipation of any replies.
>
> Regards
> Graham