Re: [MLUG] Looking 4 mad cheap PCI wireless cards

[Nathan Odle <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

This has been contemplated to death.  The general concensus is that a 
professional sort of outfit wouldn't want to do anything that could 
remotely be construed as hacking (unless of course they're 
hackers-for-hire!).

-N

Fallert, Adam Christian wrote:

>Ya know... that Tech on Wheels company is missing out on a huge market.
>They could make a killing buy driving around and finding open wireless
>networks and then offer to lock them up.
>
>It would certainly prevent network theft!!!!
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>[mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthew Schmidt
>Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 4:45 PM
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>Subject: [MLUG] Looking 4 mad cheap PCI wireless cards
>
>Hi Folks,
>
>I'm getting into wireless in a major way. Built a Pringles (c)antenna
>and hooked it up to my Mac. I was able to scoop Internet connectivity
>from all over town from my roof. Most of the APs names were "linksys",
>"d-link", and the like. It's scary to think that most of the passwords
>on those APs are still the default. But I'm not going to go snooping.
>
>Well, not much ;-)
>
>I'm wanting to do away with my $45/month cable connection with a $2
>can of Pringles and some coax. But I don't want to buy a wireless
>router. I want to hook up a PCI wireless card to my Linux crapbox and
>create an ad-hoc (p2p, whatever) network.
>
>Question: Can you guys point me in the direction of a cheap (and I
>mean mad cheap--I'm hella poor) PCI card? OR EVEN BETTER would you
>want to trade for a Compaq PCMCIA wireless card? OR EVEN EVEN EVEN
>BETTER, check out my list of stuff below and trade me for an old AP.
>
>I'm always down for trading in general. Here's a short list of some
>stuff I've got:
>
>Compaq PCMCIA wireless card
>2 Monitors
>Dazzle Digital Video Creator (USB)
>Compaq base station for most Compaq laptops (pre 2003)
>CLEAN software licenses and software (Office, Flash, Word 2K, Win 95-2K,
>more)
>Cold cathode light
>USB laptop mouse
>Tons o' fans
>Graphics cards (AGP, PCI)
>Sound cards (PCI, ISA)
>Processors (PI, PII, AMD)
>RAM
>Yamaha drum machine (Christian Cepel may already have dibs on this)
>V-drums with Alesis brain
>2 practice guitar amplifiers
>Novell Linux Technical Resource Kit (FREE! Yes! It sucks!)
>
>Be sure to respond off-list.
>
>Thanks folks!
>
>Matt
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