Mar 15 2004

Laptop tasks - done, to-do

Published by Andrew at 7:51 PM under Uncategorized

Done:
Repartitioned hard drive (15gigs for Windows, 10 gigs for Linux, 2.1 gigs factory-installed recover partition, 10gigs or so unallocated)
Reinstalled Windows XP Home (from Winbook recovery partition)
Upgraded to XP Pro.
Installed Mandrake Linux 9.2.
Installed Linux support for Windows driver for Intel WiFi card.
Configured Linux WiFi driver to use 128-bit WEP encryption and connect to home AP.

To-do: Find and install Linux native drivers for Intel WiFi card.
Configure Linux for WiFi roaming.
Install FreeBSD in unallocated drive space.
Configure FreeBSD to use Intel WiFi card, connect to home network using 128-bit WEP key and roaming.
Configure Linux to suspend and/or hibernate without locking up.