[LUNI] Hardware Recommendations - External DVD Burner and WiFi Card

[Robert Smith]

Scott, thanks for the reply. I ended up picking up a generic card from Office Depot that uses the Atheros based chip, and like your experience, it just worked, right out of the box.
   
  Rob Smith

Scott Lockwood <scott at guppylog.com> wrote:
  I really like the atheros based PCMCIA cards. I've used them under
Fedora Core 4 (with madwifi) and Ubuntu 6.06.1 - 7.04 with the
restricted kernel modules package. Worked flawlessly. D-Link has a
really good one that's inexpensive. Don't have it with me to get the
model number off of it.

On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 13:03 -0700, Robert Smith wrote:
> I'm asking for recommendations on two pieces of hardware.
> 
> First item is an external, USB 1.1 compatible DVD burner. I've got three laptops in the house. They all have USB 1.1 ports. Two of the machines (my teenagers') are running Windows, one with XP Pro and the other with Win2k SP4. My machine is running PCLinuxOS 2007. I need an external DVD burner that could be shared by these machines with particular attention paid to Linux compatibility.
> 
> I also need to pick up a WiFi card that is compatible with my machine. It can be either USB or PCMCIA (preference on the latter), and the 802.11g standard is sufficient for my needs, unless there's and "n" card that is backwards compatible AND Linux compatible.
> 
> In case you're going to ask, I'll head you off. Both of my kids have tried Linux (at dad's urging), but they both eventually switched back, saying that although they found things that they liked, there were things they couldn't do as well, plus (and a BIG plus) they didn't want to be the "square peg" or "odd man out" amongst their peer group.
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Rob Smith
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Regards,
Scott Lockwood

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