The Duc Pond

I finally replaced my Asant? AeroLAN AL1511 wireless PC card with a Linksys WPC11. The damned Asante card wouldn’t connect to the network if I enabled WEP. It also would cut the connection periodically when I was upstairs in my house. In short, it sucked. The new Linksys one was more expensive at $40, but the improved reliability is already worth it.

I was trying to get the wireless USB adapter to work on my Win98 machine, but it just won’t work. As I write this I’m installing Windows 2000 on it, in hope that that will do the trick. It might eventually be a Linux box (I’ll have to get a new hard drive first) but for now it can be a Windows machine. I want some of the files off of that computer.