Novice question about laptops and wireless

[Mark Haney]

Virden, Larry W. wrote:
>  
> I've inherited a really old Dell laptop, on which is installed a really
> old version of Redhat - I believe it is redhat 4. The slowness of the
> machine, the limited amount of disk space, etc. probably has me locked
> into staying at this version.
> 
> The laptop does have a wireless card. I've never used a linux laptop
> before, nor ever used wi-fi, so I'm uncertain what, if anything, I need
> to do to go from booting the system to being able to actually make use
> of the local library's free wi-fi network to access the internet.
> 
> Does anyone have any pointers to useful guides, HOWTOs, books, or
> whatever that would help someone as new to all of this as I?
> 
> I understand that you don't know anything about the library system. If I
> have pointers to howtos, etc., then perhaps I can decypher the questions
> to ask to move forward.
> 
> Thanks.
> 

I really only have one or two questions about this.  Does the wireless 
card work with RH4?  Back in that day wireless was still just about a 
pipe dream.  And if it does, will any hotspot still support the protocol 
that card uses?


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