After my little huff-n-puff about Gentoo and networkless installations, I just went to Best Buy and got a nic card. 19.95, not bad, really.

Now, of course, everything works wonderfully. The last time I checked in on my old laptop, it had spent eight hours on emerge icewm. The two biggest differences in time involved are:

1. I didn’t install X.org before emerging Icewm.
2. I set the optimization flag to -O3 instead of -O2. Longer compile times, smaller space on hard drive.

After an emerge rox and some configuring, I just might have a working prototype of what I want the Contigo software to look like. Going to have to test a lot of things, but it should be good enough for now. Besides, it’s easier to demo the laptop than the whole system!