> I recently bought a Dell Inspiron 1420 laptop. I have an existing Airtel DSL > Connection at home.I want to share this internet connection with my laptop > through a wireless router. My DSL modem is connected to my desktop via > Ethernet. I have never bought a wireless router so dont know what to look > for and what to watch out for.
If you wish to save on electricity and the the numbers of wires coming from your switch board, you can ask Airtel to give you a DSL Modem+router. They usually supply a D-Link one. > I would be really thankful if any of you could provide me with some helpful > hints. > > Another question that I have is how do i go about installing Ubuntu on this > laptop. Should i format the drive,install ubuntu and then install the Vista > Home Preimium that comes along with it. > The pre paritioned configuration has a recovery partition also.Whats that > bit for, and does it need to be recreated for Vista to run?? > I think Ubuntu can resize and re-partition Windown NTFS partitions, but I am not sure about Vista. Ubuntu will ask you during install. -- Goldwyn _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
