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Skriven 2006-03-10 19:55:10 av James Bradley (1:134/77.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Maurice Kinal
Ärende: Usb+802.11g+wood+...
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Maurice Kinal wrote James Bradley on 03-09-06 13:47

 JB> It's a Gigafast f/a Future Shop rebate program.
 MK> Never heard of it.

Intro stuff. The rebate check promises to be $110! 

 MK> Okay.  I've heard of D-Link so that is a start.  I'll take
 MK> the liberty of seeing what I can find out about it.

Not to worry. I d-loaded all sorts of pdfs on the two D-link devices. One, a
10/100 switch, ($14. DSS-5+) and the other an 11g bridge. ($22. DWL-810 but
don't quote me on this one.) Add that to the 10/100 router->11g, and two 11g
USB transceivers, ($10 each!) and I'm good to go! 

[PS: I accessed the Gigafast router page via W'98, then the D-Link page turned
inaccessible. At least both seem to be working, even though some Java (or was
it an Active-X) element doesn't seem to be.]

 MK> As far as I know XP doesn't have any usb issues.

No, USB was well supported by W'98SE. 98 uses 16-bit <?> drivers, and can
support everything, just not as fast AIU.

 MK> your way.  That floppy idea must have been an extremely
 MK> painful experience for you.  I feel your pain.

You don't want to know. I finally ran Linux's fdisk on the 1.44s, and deleted
four bogus partitions, none of them ending on a boundary, or some such
clap-trap. From there, you heard about the BS I was seeing trying to coheres
them off those floppies.

The community connection is less than a 5 minute drive from here. They're the
same four nodes that were there before, but with *some* security precautions.
Updating to XP, and the newest Dell lineup, (I never said they were perfect.
;-) seems to have speed things along nicely. I offered to teach some basic
'puter skills to newbies, and my services if someone kicks some cords out...

 JB> Checking my assumptions, you connect nothing to the WAN port, which

 MK> to setup from wherever afterwards.  A power outage ended
 MK> up screwing the whole thing up and now we can't access it
 MK> from anywhere due to a faulty password for some strange

Reseting doesn't fix it, or it is so low in priority... Shesh, you guys see the
most blown gear, due to unclean power.

 MK> Even that part is debatable but it doesn't matter since it
 MK> seems to work okay as long as it doesn't have access to
 MK> anything else, which it doesn't.

Ya... I think I'll have to put more faith in the 11g security. When you've got
nothing to lose, you can afford to give it away. (-|

 MK>> Sounds great!  We'll see you when you get here.
 JB> I might have to sell the house, to pay for the gas.

 MK> True.  It isn't quite as bad as it was a few months back
 MK> but still expensive for sure.  Mind you isn't it cheaper
 MK> there?  Usually is.

Compared to Vancouver proper, at least. 88.? I payed just days ago.

 JB> Toss me an e-mail.

 MK> I don't think I have your address.  Try netmailing me
 MK> again to the above address and/or try dropping the point
 MK> part and Janis will probably forward it to me.  I think
 MK> she still likes me.  Shhhhhhh.

Little does she know? <LOL> I meant to say netmail. Because of Multimail,
and/or the Max door, netmail, AND our email gate are rather a pain. I'll look
for evidence of earlier troubleshooting, to see if I can repeat success.

 JB> Huh... Wha? We could take the topic to home'n garden... (Or whatever

 MK> Is it still alive?  It is winter also so I don't know if
 MK> there would be much traffic there.

That's the idea. AFAIK, it still exists, but everybody seems to go into
hibernation for the winter.

 JB> Sounds to me like you have a pretty good start. One fella is
 JB> soldering caps on [...] JB> you don't
 JB> need to take minutes at meetings.

 MK> We eventually get around to it.  Yeah it is a good
 MK> situation we have going. I talked to him about mencoder
 MK> and the win-tv card the other day and he told me he is
 MK> still working on the p4 board he has allocated towards
 MK> that end and was just finishing a custom Linux install he
 MK> was working on.  One step at a time.

Well, see??? You're an affliction. <G+D>


... James
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