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progrock

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Registered: 2008-07-19

Posts: 33

Before I Install Arch on My Laptop...

I have a couple of questions.  I have a Dell 1420 that I take onto campus for notes in class and something to do between classes.  I've gotten Arch working beautifully on my Desktop with FVWM finally all set.  But I'd like to be sure that everything (at least almost certainly) work before I go to the trouble of resizing the windows partition and setting everything up.  So, here are my questions:
1) I know this question is kind of ridiculous, but my university has these instructions for XP (https://hdc.tamu.edu/reference/document … ion_id=729) for connecting to the on campus wireless network.  I've had difficulty in the past connecting to those networks with Ubuntu and Fedora because of the need for a username and password.  I've never really known how to configure everything to make things work.  So, will wicd (which I really like) support the correct configuration?  Or will I need to find a new wireless network tool?
2) I have an Intel 3945 wireless card in the laptop, and the on campus network is WPA2, are both of those pretty well supported?
3) Is suspend/resume supported pretty well on the laptop?  I've had (unresolved) difficulties with it on my desktop, and it's much more important on the laptop.

thanks,
progrock

vogt

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From: Toronto, Canada

Registered: 2006-11-25

Posts: 389

Re: Before I Install Arch on My Laptop...

1) Check out netcfg (in core) http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Netcfg
2) The 3945 card works fine here.
3) http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Suspend_to_Disk shows you a couple options to try (pm-utils takes the least setup). I've had problems getting an ATI video card to work coming back from a suspend to disk on a desktop, but none of the laptops I've tried have problems suspending (I'm just lucky?)

finferflu

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From: Manchester, UK

Registered: 2007-06-21

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Re: Before I Install Arch on My Laptop...

1) I think you can even use Networkmanager;
2) I have the same card and it works just fine with ndiswrapper;
3) I have no experience with these.

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