On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 11:17:35PM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote: > > Dear People, > > I'm currently visiting Salt Lake from out East (Chapel Hill, NC), through > the middle of this coming week. > > I've been trying to find locally a wireless network card that works with > Linux to install on my host's laptop. The cards available at the local > retail outlets seem to only work with proprietary drivers, and I don't want > to use proprietary drivers for such a basic thing. > > Ideally, I'd prefer to use a card which is supported by a driver already in > the kernel, but I'd consider third party drivers too, as long as they were > open source. The important thing is that I should be able to pick it up > locally. I don't have the time to wait for something to be delivered. > > So, any ideas where I can pick up one from? I only have a few days to > figure something out. > > Please CC me. I'm not currently subscribed. > > Thanks. > Faheem. Hi Faheem, there used to be an orinoco/lucent/wavelan silver or gold that worked out of the box. cheers, Kev -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | debian.home.pipeline.com | | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: pgp.mit.edu | my NPO: cfsg.org |
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