Re: [Hampshire] USB Wifi Dongle - Recommendations Sought

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Author: alan c
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] USB Wifi Dongle - Recommendations Sought
Sean Gibbins wrote:
> Sean Gibbins wrote:
>> Jonathan Hudson wrote:
>>>
>>> 3Com OfficeConnect (3CRUSB10075)11G (54Mbps) USB; Zydas chipset, works
>>> out of the box on Gutsy and Hardy on i386, ppc32 and x86_64 (at least).
>>>
>>> AFAIK, still obtainable.
>>
>> Cheers Jonathan - still around but quiet pricey (around 30 quid). Any
>> other suggestions out there?
>>
>> Sean
>>
>
> As it happens managed to grab one off ebay tonight for under a tenner -
> nice!
>
> Now all I need is a PCI graphics card - anyone got anything laying
> around in the loft they want to sell on? Matrox or nVidia preferred, but
> I'll go an ATI too if it is reasonably recent. Probably best if you
> contact me off-list with that I guess.
>
> I have a /very/ nice fanless ATI Radeon 9600 with 128Mb RAM on board -
> sadly it's an AGP 8x card so useless to me in this instance - I'd be
> happy to swap it for something of a similar quality in PCI though...


Consider a phone call to jamies?
Unfortunately their website seems to be down just now so I dont have a
phone number

http://www.jamiescomputerclub.org.uk/
http://www.hantslug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?JamiesComputerClub

I gave them boxes of similar cards a while ago.
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alan cocks
Kubuntu user#10391