I did receive my refreshed workstation and laptop today. My new workstation is very fast and the laptop is in a whole different category than the one it replaces. The fact that I (well the team actually even though it is kept at my desk) already have a similar laptop does reduce the "wow" factor. I did find out however that Fedora Core 5 (a Linux distribution) does not attempt to set up the wireless connection - other distributions actually brought up the wireless connections on the existing laptop. I should try those distributions on the new laptop to see if they will get it going as well.
Good night!
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