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Have been testing newer Pup 32's on old hardware, see this post: viewtopic.php?t=9701

My test computers are both 32bit laptops from around 2003-8. The first test, suggested by @rockedge, was Void32 and it did surprisingly well. My second round of test has been JammyPup32 and seems to do as well as Void32. I did have to swap the fdrv in Jammy for the one from Void in order to get the wifi cards (broadcom) in the test computers to be recognized.

Will do a "friendly" remaster of Jammy (much like the one done on Bionic32) and since most of the target computers will be from that 2003-8 era, I'd like to possibly include a broader range of wifi (and other) drivers for those machines.

Can you recommend another firmware or kernel swap that would be better than what I currently have.

Thanks
wizard

@wizard - If your current combo works, I'd stick with it.
With such old pcs, you might run into some needing the wl driver (I think there are 10 adaptors that do).
My 32bit pae kernels usually have that option as an addon, but very old pcs may need non-pae kernels.
In a terminal, running: lspci -nn | grep etwork
will tell you what adaptor you have. Other than that, just use a biggish fdrv.