Re: [NTLK] Roamer PC card? Network for 130?

From: Laurent Daudelin (laurent.daudelin_at_verizon.net)
Date: Sun Jan 04 2004 - 09:43:17 PST


on 04/01/04 10:46, Marchie at marchie_at_mac.com wrote:

>
> On Saturday, January 3, 2004, at 11:58 PM, Martin Joseph wrote:
>>
>> You can't use the 130 for any type networking beyond serial, AFAIK due
>> to the lack of support for NIE in it's later form.
>
> The FAQ says the Raomer is the ONE Ethernet-ish card that works.
>
> If I can make a PPP/SLIP connection on the DNS server I'm installing, I
> could network that way... might be an option.
>
>
> But w/ the network I alreay have in place, it'd be nice to use that.
>
> ~Donald

Keep in mind that this will be *VERY* slow on a 130. For email, that would
be OK for small messages (remember that the 130 has about 1/4 the heap that
a 2100 has), but for browsing, that would be unbearably slow (it is already
quite slow on a 2100)...

-Laurent.

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