The CentOS drive for the HP NC4010 is built. I just needed to use external instead of USB power for my USB CDrom. Go figure...
I did this in my hotel room, where they only have wireless. I went down to the 'business center' and used an ethernet drop, but I don't think the registration worked. I didn't know that even for the ehternet drops you have to do that portal thing with your browser. How do I determine if the registration was completed.
Now I am making headway, finally, on the Toshiba Portege 3490.
I was having TERRIBLE timing problems with the multiport extender.
Then I decided to THINK, and went into BIOS, changed the PCMCIA to 16 bit cardbus, and the install is proceeding well. I have my 3COM 574 LAN card in so that the install will do the network installs. And the desk gave me a WET11 so I will have an ethernet drop in the room, but I have to do the browser thing before I can register....
Next I have to get the wireless working on both the HP and Toshiba. The HP has an internal Intel wireless card. For the Toshiba I have LOTS of wireless PCMCIA cards from all sorts of vendors.
So getting a bit ahead of myself:
How do I proceed with the wireless networking install. Also WPA support with both 802.1X and PSK.
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