Heya, Jackson,

Thanks for the reporting. The LIP (LAN Improvement Plan -- so this is a two-level acronym) is surveying selected schools for wireless, as you noted.  Besides client cards, they will be putting in access points to essentially blanket the building in CPS wi-fi, so it will be convenient to use wireless laptops or future-purchase wireless desktops as needed, especially in locations not currently wired.  They will also be upgrading switches in the CBOXen.  

There was a big meeting a couple months ago, and they were rather close-mouthed about when the schools would be pipelined into the system.  (Only about 150 schools citywide are in this year.)  So it's a good thing you were on hand to observe this.  

What model is that Dell?  It's entirely typical that after W2K install some of them have no network and primitive display until the drivers can be updated.  We have a couple convenient Dell driver CDs.

  ==Mitch