Hi, I'll start by saying "everything works".
I have mentioned this before, but I am setting up a laptop for a friend on the Coast. It is a ThinkPad 600E, with a 300MHz PII processor and I have maxed the RAM to 288Mb. I am installing Debian 3.0 r4 (woody) on it. I know it's a bit old, but it works. The primary purpose for this machine is web and email. I have just got the built-in mwave modem working, and it connects from here (St Albans) to FreeNet at just under 50kbps (I do not expect 56kbps, so it's not bad). It should not have been so hard, but I had an interrupt clash- without the PCMCIA ethernet card installed it would have worked out-of-the-box (that card won't be installed at the Coast). Having learned a lot about getting the thing going I am thinking about wiping it and re-installing it to see how long it actually takes once you know what you are doing, and to double-check my documentation. The machine will boot into kdm (there are at least two users) and run KDE with KMail for email and Konqueror and Mozilla for browsing. I suppose I will have to have cookies turned on by default. An ssh server will be running all the time, so I can get in when it is connected to the net. I will implement the suggestion of running ntpdate when a PPP connection is made. No other ports will be open. I will be answering a lot of questions when I deliver the unit, but I wondered if anyone has some good pointers before I go over there, so that I don't overlook anything. And thanks to the Debian team for doing such a good job. Thanks, Andy -- Now playing: Pointer Sisters - Neutron Dance
