[KLUG Members] Adding a Laptop To My Network

[Alan DeJong]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Tauno Williams" <awilliam@whitemice.org>
To: <members@kalamazoolinux.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 7:43 AM
Subject: [KLUG Members] Adding a Laptop To My Network


> Well, thanks to the bloated public school system I'm now adding a Dell
> Lattitude Cpt to my home network.  So far I'm pretty impressed with it,
> despite the fact that laptops have notoriously sludgy I/O.  fips20
> happily shrunk the Win9x parition, and BS-Ware PRO virutally leapt onto
> the harddrive.  X-Free, sound, etc... all worked straight away,  I never
> touched a config file.  I plopped in a PCMCIA ethernet card (D-Link,
> $48, which says it supports Redhat right on the box) and told control
> panel to use DHCP, and I was on the net.  Whew,  that was too hard. :)
>
It was about the same way for my install too! :)  Althought i used partition
magic to shrink the size of my WinME partition, everything else was the
same.  I think my network card has seen its last days though.  But all in
all, everything set up very very very very nicely right out of the box.  And
this is a brand new computer too..  I just bought this from Gateway no more
than a week ago, and an old version of Red Hat 7.1 installed on it with no
problems!  I was very impressed!