Today was payday.. payday means I can go out and spend some money without feeling particularly guilty.. so I went to CompUSA (yes, I know, but this is CT nothing else here) and bought a WAP and a wireless pcmcia card.

They happened to have a sale on the Linksys wireless access point/router/switch for $99 so it seemed like the obvious choice (I was planning on buying a Linksys wap anyway).. and a Linksys pcmcia wireless card for $60. Not a bad deal at all.

Configuration under linux was a snap and within 5 minutes I was able to get online wireless.. sweet.

Now the bad news.. Apparently the network card I have in the desktop pc (orion) on which I'm installing gentoo doesn't like the new Linksys router. It semi-detects it (sets itself to full duplex) but that's about it.. DHCP doesn't work, static config doesn't work.. yet it works happily with the old 10BT Linksys hub I have. I do have a spare netgear card lying around somewhere, so I'll just replace it tomorrow.. don't really feel like doing that tonight, but this puts my gentoo install off by a day.. It is more than halfway there already, but don't really want to finish it without Internet access.

On the bright side, I'm typing this while lying in bed :) Wireless rules.