Why Linux is ftw
Since my router crashed (about as hard as I could throw it), I’ve been minus a gateway/firewall for the house, and since it had the wireless access point on it, I’ve been minus wireless.
A couple of newlywed friends moved in with us for a while, and they brought with them one Toshiba laptop with one PCMCIA and one ExpressCard slot.
The solution was to boot up their laptop with the Ubuntu 7.10 live CD, pop in the Prism2 card from the old router, scp over the backups of the firewall scripts, and ifconfig stuff everywhere. Not only is there wireless again, but I’ve turned them on to Linux, and maintained the house’s freedom from Microsoft.
