Last week, I bought a wireless pcmcia card for my ancient laptop and I've been trying to get it to work under Ubuntu linux for a while now. I want to get this down before I forget about what I did. For curiosity or reference, this is my laptop. The card I bought is a D-Link DWL-G630, hardware version C2. I followed various information on the web to ( Read more... )

I ordered a wireless router yesterday (802.11g). It was $42 at Newegg, which isn't bad to start with, but it also had a $25 mail-in rebate! I wanted a way to connect the Wii to the net, but I didn't feel I needed wireless. It seemed kinda pointless to upgrade a perfectly good router just for the Wii, but I guess it's not bad to have one around. $17 ( Read more... )