this distro live-boots, installs, runs quite adorably on my bronze age toshiba satellite PS275A-4K986 with its glorious 64MiB RAM as the main limiting factor; so thanx a million for that.
now I'd fancy to dog-paddle, if not surf, the interwebs, and that by means of a wireless connection.
I have a TPLink USB wifi card with athereos chipset that would require the ath9_htc kernel module, but that one has only been backported to the 2.6.26 kernel at best (
https://backports.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page ). Is it possible to painlessly move to a higher kernel, or has anyone solved this problem in any way before? Any suggestions? I feel moderately comfortable on a commandline, but compiling is still alien to me - I'd rather have someone else...
Alternatively, would it be easier to make this puppy recognize an android (gingerbread) device in USB (network-) tethering mode, technically a tunnel, afaik?
And in both cases, only USB 1.1 is on offer.
You may forgive me for asking rather than browsing the forum if you know that my solar-run household is both off grid and offline, so all my downloading distros, packages, mail etc. has to be done from small mobile devices sitting on the sidewalk where there are friendly WLANs, on the occasions when I leave the woods.