[Eug-lug] Need Wireless NIC

Ben Barrett stircrazyben at gmail.com
Mon Nov 20 16:20:56 PST 2006


Agreed -- one solution, albeit slightly hackish, is to get a Linksys W54GL,
the linux model,
and use *it* to bring wifi to what I'll call a POWN (heh, plain old wired
network)....
I wish they made a linux model with two radios and the voip hardware that is
in their phone (ATA) adaptor.

   Ben


On 11/20/06, roger <roger at eskimo.com> wrote:
>
> This brings up a good problem I've seen reoccurring these days.
>
> All the latest Wireless Network Cards (NICs) appear not to have Linux
> drivers, but seem to rely on their win32 drivers being wrapped and
> executed within Linux using ndiswrapper. Even
> "net-wireless/linux-wlan-ng" is being phased-out in favor of
> ndiswrapper.
>
> I prefer using Linux drivers myself.
>
>
> On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 08:51 -0800, Jim Darrough wrote:
> > Anybody have a USB or PCI Wireless NIC lying around unused they would
> > like to donate to my son? 10bt is fine.
> >
> > Or sell at a reasonable price.
> >
> > Thanks, Jim Darrough
> >
> > 913-9963
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> Mon Nov 20 11:42:19 PST 2006
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