Mimosa, I have a couple of questions. I was able to setup my network card and configure it properly, so I was able to connect to the web etc... Now I have installed a wireless card. The laptop sees the card as wlan0. I'm having a difficult time configuring properly. I have installed ndiswrapper and ...

Thanks for the info Mimosa. I was able to identify the 2 modules that I need to load.
1. rtpci, rt2x00pci
2. yenta_socket

So, the next step is how do I load these modules from CD since I have no network connection on these laptops?

I also would like to install NDISWRAPPER from CD.

Any ideas?

LXDE is another option, and has more lightweight options installed as the default, such as the midori web browser. But you could equally put that in Salix Fluxbox or your existing xfce. Maybe test live versions first to see how they perform.

When you say "minimum windows manager", do you mean you ...

I have downloaded and installed Salix-XFCE-13.37. I'm really happy to tell everyone that I has able to installed it on a couple of old laptops. One of them has is an Sony Vaio with an AMD processor and 256mb of memory and a 20gb hd. The other is another Sony Vaio with a pentium 3 processor and 128mb ...