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

["Daniel Nowlin" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I have been thinking of doing this.  You know it is not hacking if you just 
make a connection (via something like net stumbler) and then disconnect. 
This has been proven on TSS (The Screen Savers).

Dan

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From: "Nathan Odle" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
To: "MLUG Members" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 18:14
Subject: Re: [MLUG] Looking 4 mad cheap PCI wireless cards


> 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-----
>>From: EMAIL:PROTECTED
>>[mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthew Schmidt
>>Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 4:45 PM
>>To: EMAIL:PROTECTED
>>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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