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Karel, why oh why did you this? People seem not to understand I'm not intending to run MSN7 as my default Messenger at all, just trying to solve some little annoyance? Do they actually read what I wrote?

Just tried amsn-cvs. It crashed when I tried to start a normal conversation with someone, then worked fine. I did not try videochat support yet though, none of my contacts owning a webcam came online untill now.

My new Dell notebook is finally arrived. So now, I am installing Gentoo Linux from stage1.

Booting the minimal liveCD went fine. Even the art in this LiveCD is very nice! I booted "gentoo -nodhcp" while dhcp should only take time because I have no wired connection and the wlan needs encryption. After booting, my wireless card didn't work. In dmesg I found the messages "ipw-2.2-boot.fw load failed: Reason: -2", "Unable to load firmware: 0xFFFFFFFE" and some other messages indicating that starting my wlan card failed. After an "rmmod ipw2200" and "modprobe ipw2200", there were no errors in dmesg so I could start using iwconfig to prepare my wireless connection.

I live at a student home from Ghent University so I need VPN to access the internet. Fortunately, my girlfriend has some windows-pc standing here and doing nothing, so I configured VPN on that machine and shared the internet connection, so I can start a stage1 install.

I'll post all my experiences here, as asked by Christoph.