On Mar 5, 2007, at 2:54 PM, krt wrote:

> Broadcom support would fix this problem, as you can find Broadcom  
> chip minipci nics all over eBay for a few bucks.

mostly because they suck.

> Let's all collectively groan at Broadcom's insistence upon shunning  
> the open source community.  Boo!
>
> Anyways, I've also found that Intel 2200/2300 NIC's are plentiful  
> in the 20-30 after shipping range.  It's possible that a source of  
> them could be found for larger and cheaper quantity purchases.  It  
> looks that way as a lot of the vendors have multiple auctions for  
> the same item at the same time, i.e. 25 dell truemobile somethings,  
> which are actually intel 2200's... etc.

You can have cheap radio, or you can have good radio.  Pick one.