[gentoo-user] Gentoo Laptop

["Timothy A. Holmes" <tholmes@mcaschool.net>]

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HI folks;

I am getting ready to rebuild my laptop in gentoo - it is currently running the first install of gentoo that i ever did and i need to clean it up and running right.

I want to use the laptop for the following - 
IM and IRC communications, (kopete and kvirc) 
photo processing (digikam and gimp and gthumb) 
web browsing etc (firefox and konqueror) 
VM ware to run windows
samba connections to my file servers (smb4k)
Regular file management (konqueror)
VNC and RDP Connections to windows servers
SSH connections to linux servers
VPN connection to my network at work
Video capture via firewire (kino or equivalent)
Use of detachable firewire hard drives
use of iomega external USB dvd burner (k3b)
use of internal cd rw drive / dvd reader (K3B)
i need the wireless to work - im using the windows driver and NDISwrapper

I use Fluxbox as my GUI

wishes / wants -- i would really love the flash cards from my camera to automout and be read/write automatically

Id also like the external usb / firewire drives and flash (thumb) dries to do the same thing

the screen is 1440x900

the hdd is 80gb and i will be partitioning it thusly:

32mb - boot
1gb - swap
remainder /

it has 1gb memory onboard

i have 2 hard drives for the machine, so i will keep the current gentoo install, and swap the other one in to build on, but that keeps it from being a rush job and hopefully i can get it right the first time.  I will be taking this machine with me for 3 weeks storm chasing this summer and i need to be able to depend on it to always JUST WORK without hassles etc.

I am looking for recomendations / suggestions / pitfalls etc to assembling this machine -- i will be following the manual for the build, but if anyone has done this type of builds in the past and has suggestions etc id appreciate recomendations, or links to appropriate howtos etc.  Many of the things i want to add / build have howtos associated with them, and i will be using them.




Thanks


here are the various specs on the machine

cat cpuinfo

processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 15
model           : 2
model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz
stepping        : 9
cpu MHz         : 3200.000
cache size      : 512 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 2
core id         : 0
cpu cores       : 1
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 2
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov   pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe cid xtpr
bogomips        : 6389.63

processor       : 1
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 15
model           : 2
model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz
stepping        : 9
cpu MHz         : 3200.000
cache size      : 512 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 2
core id         : 0
cpu cores       : 1
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 2
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov   pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe cid xtpr
bogomips        : 6383.12


lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P PCI to AGP Controller (rev 02)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P PCI to CSA Bridge (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10]
02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82547EI Gigabit Ethernet Controller
03:01.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI4510 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 02)
03:01.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCI4510 IEEE-1394 Controller
03:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)



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