Text 7670, 74 rader
Skriven 2006-10-20 19:51:24 av Maurice Kinal (1:140/13.1)
   Kommentar till text 7667 av Russell Tiedt (5:7105/1)
Ärende: You gotta smile
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Hey Russell!

Oct 20 20:41 06, Russell Tiedt wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 RT> andfurther claims ... , dragging their heels on carpets ceilings and 
 RT> repaint 
 RT> tho ...

Yeah.  Has to be done though.

 RT> Well as I cannot "operate" on the modem I have no idea who/what/where 
 RT> is 
 RT> trying to connect to it - the PCMCIA cardbus wireless nic I got 
 RT> to-day does 
 RT> not fit in the adapter I got from you ... :-(((

Right.  The adapter is 16-bit and cardbus is 32-bit.  Compact flash disks are
16-bit which is what that adapter was designed for.  Also pcmcia these days is
32-bit but is 16-bit compatible whereas older pcmcia interfaces are 16-bit even
if 32-bit cards fit.  I think the older single slot ones cannot accept 32-bit
cards since they don't have enough pins but I don't have anything like that
here at the moment to confirm that.  I have dual slot 16-bit ones though and
they will accept 32-bit cards but that doesn't mean they will actually work
unless they are 16-bit backwards compatible.  Same with pci cards except with
them it is usually voltages rather then bitness although sometimes the bus
speed is a factor.  Some of the 66MHz pci cards will work on a 33MHz pci bus.

Anyhow it all appears to be in flux at the moment.  The Intel board seems to be
well behaved about these concerns which is nice.  I still think pci-x will win
out over pci-e eventually but maybe not.  So far there seems little real reason
to worry about pci-e since ALL the pci-e cards I've seen are totally
undesirable at the moment.  I have yet to see one I actually would want no
matter what the price and what is there I can already do just fine without
them.

 RT> BUT ... I do expect it to fit in my bother-in-laws laptop which is 
 RT> currently 
 RT> running ubuntu linux, will see to-morrow after work ...

Good plan.  If you're in need I could liberate a 32-bit pci card with a 32-bit
3.5 inch cardbus thingy I used to use.  That worked excellent.  I see the same
chipset on many laptops these days so it should be compatible with a wide
variety of modern pcmcia cards.  I haven't seen any of these around lately but
I haven't been looking either.  Let me know if you are in need and I'll see
what Paul thinks about it.  I don't think he is using it and more then likely
he isn't in need of it.  The only problem was it required pcmcia_cs rather then
the new fangled way but as luck has it pcmcia_cs can be made to work with 2.6
kernels the last time I checked.

 RT> No unkown almost permanet connects on your interface, here I 
 RT> don'tknow whether 
 RT> is one or more systems in reach of my router/adsl modem ... <sigh>

Right.  That would be my biggest, perhaps only, concern.

 RT> Yeah, you are out in the "boonies", I am not ... :-(

That isn't the reason.  Here the wireless is independent of anything else so
even if this were in a more densely populated area the methodology would be the
same.  In your case that isn't true so you're forced to deal with that issue. 
Here internet access has absolutely nothing to do with wireless access.  Thus
we are free to do whatever we want and get away with it without worrying about
having to foot the bill for freeloaders or worse what they might do if they
gained access.  With the wireless they are free to do whatever they think they
can get away with as it doesn't have anything sensitive on there and we
actually want people to use it.  So far it has only been Paul and me, mostly me
though.  I like it but wouldn't lose any sleep over it if I didn't have it,
boonies or not.

Life is good,
Maurice

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