Inspiron 7500 + Linksys + FreeBSD 4 or 5?

[l***@tntluoma.com]

I have a Dell Inspiron 7500 which is no longer my primary machine, therefore
I want to use it to learn FreeBSD.

I will be connecting to the internet via a Linksys Wireless Network PC Card
WPC11 v3

and was wondering whether folks would suggest FBSD4 or FBSD5 for this. It
will not be a production-level machine, however I'm new enough that if 5 is
too "raw" then I'd be content with 4.

TjL
who finally figured out how to get suspend-to-disk working for Linux at
least

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[l***@tntluoma.com]

I d/l the installation floppies for FBSD5.21-RELEASE but it doesn't see my
ethernet card (pc card) and therefore I can't install over FTP.

I don't remember having to do anything with it the last time I did this
(FBSD4), but perhaps something has changed?

TjL

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