Excellent! $40 is a lot.  We couldn't make much money reselling them.

I'll check on a dealer to see if we could get a cheaper price.

----- Original Message ----
From: Robert Citek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Bworks_shop <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, September 6, 2008 9:57:06 PM
Subject: [bworks_shop] Re: PIII machines from WITS


These machines do not have built-in wifi nor room enough to put in a
full-height PCI card.  So I picked up two different USB wifi sticks at
BestBuy to try out.

Belkin - F5D7050 v4001 [1]
LinkSys - WUSB54GC [2]

Both worked flawlessly on an open wifi.  Plug in.  Wait.  Click on the
NetworkManager applet to choose wifi network.  While both cards worked
on the machines from WITS, the Linksys did not work on my Lenovo
laptop, which has built-in wifi.  Even when turned off, the Linksys
USB wifi did not work on my laptop.

Both cards cost about $40 at BestBuy.  Might be able to get them for
less elsewhere.

More details on supported USB wifi cards at Ubuntu's website [3].

[1] https://help. ubuntu.com/ community/ HardwareSupportC omponentsWireles 
sNetworkCardsBel kin#USB

[2] https://help. ubuntu.com/ community/ HardwareSupportC omponentsWireles 
sNetworkCardsLin ksys#USB

[3] https://help. ubuntu.com/ community/ WifiDocs/ WirelessCardsSup ported

Regards,
- Robert

On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Robert Citek <robert.citek@ gmail.com> wrote:
> I have built a few of these machines.  I'll put two of them on the
> shelf where the graduate machines are (next to the bag with the
> T-shirts.)
    

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