| jtatum | yeah, like the arduino cpu, or some of the lower end ones would be nice :) i really want to try an attiny85 for instance. anchor and a handful of others like jameco and i think hsc have a bunch of microchip microcontrollers but nobody seems to have atmel :( | 00:02 |
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| akk | Anchor definitely has some atmel, but probably not a great selection. | 00:05 |
| jtatum | hm. ok. i'll check again. thanks akk | 00:06 |
| nhaines | On the way home today I need to pick up a slim wireless network card that will be compatible with Ubuntu. Does anyone have suggestions? | 00:31 |
| akk | What kind of card? cardbus, mini-pci? | 00:32 |
| nhaines | That's a good question! mini-pci. | 00:32 |
| akk | d has an Intel 5150 half-mini that works great with ubuntu, much better than the original broadcom he had. | 00:33 |
| akk | He says it's B/G only, no N, which actually makes it work better (N confuses things sometimes). | 00:34 |
| nhaines | That's fine for now. | 00:34 |
| akk | Pretty much any Intel mini-PCI card except the very newest N ones seem to work well. | 00:34 |
| nhaines | Hmm, Microcenter doesn't seem to list Intel-brand cards. | 00:35 |
| akk | Figures ... it's always hard to buy linux-compatible stuff in brick-n-mortar stores. | 00:35 |
| akk | (d got his from amazon IIRC ... it was extremely cheap) | 00:35 |
| nhaines | Looks like Lenovo has one for $165. | 00:37 |
| akk | Is that for a whole laptop containing the card? | 00:38 |
| nhaines | If only! | 00:38 |
| akk | I think d paid about $10 or $15. | 00:38 |
| nhaines | Cheapest is $26, which isn't terribly unreasonable. | 00:39 |
| akk | Yeah, that's what I'm seeing too -- I'm not seeing the super-cheap ones. Maybe he used ebay rather than amazon. | 00:41 |
| akk | Also the 5150 does seem to support n, so he might be misremembering something. | 00:41 |
| nhaines | One of the problems is that I can't just walk into Microcenter and ask about it.. they're good but not that good. | 00:41 |
| akk | There's also this for $17.50: http://www.amazon.com/Intel-Wireless-WiFi-Link-4965AGN/dp/B000RFPBQQ | 00:42 |
| akk | Yeah, microcenter isn't helpful that way (don't know of any store that is, sadly). | 00:42 |
| akk | $15 on ebay | 00:43 |
| nhaines | I see a lot of mini-pci references to laptops. These also work for desktop computers that just have smaller slots on the back of the case, right? | 00:43 |
| akk | No idea, sorry. | 00:44 |
| nhaines | Hmm. | 00:46 |
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| pleia2 | Darkwing: all good for SD Ubuntu Hour tomorrow? (there was no announcement on the list, but we need to know if we should tweet about it) | 06:49 |
| Darkwing | pleia2: No, I thought I emailed you... | 06:49 |
| Darkwing | Then again, KMail is being a POS | 06:50 |
| pleia2 | :\ | 06:50 |
| pleia2 | can you delete it from loco.ubuntu.com? | 06:50 |
| Darkwing | Yeah... Give me a sec. | 06:51 |
| Darkwing | I'll do it in a few. | 06:51 |
| pleia2 | thanks :) | 06:51 |
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