i think that a wireless g will suffice for him. 6.06 dosnt have native support for N. blame red hat for that one... or was it novells falt. anyway, any wireless g card from best buy. Rob Bayerl wrote: > I'm not 100% that it works in 6.06, but the best wireless card I've > found (so far) is the Gigabyte GN-WP01GS > (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16839121008). > It's the RaLink RT2561 chipset. It doesn't come with a low profile > bracket (at least not from newegg), but those are fairly standard in > design. I would think your biggest problem would be the Ubuntu > drivers since all of the wireless cards I've seen lately seem to be > low profile. > Best of luck in any case. > On Dec 14, 2007 7:55 PM, Anna Edwards <anna2edw at yahoo.com> wrote: >> if using a usb device isnt a problom, go to best buy and every wireless g usb adapter has native support >> >> >> Andrew Zbikowski wrote: >> > I've been searching for the past hour and a half and haven't turned up >> > anything 100% conclusive, so here's hoping someone in TCLUG knows... >> > I need to find a PCI Wireless Network card that will fit into a small >> > form factor/low profile case. (Dell OptiPlex GX250, GX260, GX270, >> > GX280, GX640, 745, 755). If that weren't bad enough, it also needs to >> > work in Linux (Ubuntu 6.06 LTS). I could go to a newer Ubuntu release >> > if I had to, but for now I'd rather not for now. I've got the Ubuntu >> > 6.06 LTS installer PXE booting and installing everything automatically >> > from there, and if I can put off updating everything until the next >> > Ubuntu Long Term Support release that would make my 2008 - 2011. ;-) >> > The autoinstall is basically a web kiosk. I've probably got about 50 >> > of them that are currently running an old version of Debian. Most are >> > wired, but there are 12 that are wireless, but we've exhausted the >> > supply of cards that we do have and the cards that we do have don't >> > fit in the small form factor cases. >> > Anyway, my search will continue on Monday morning unless someone knows >> > of a card that will get the job done... >> > -- >> > Andrew S. Zbikowski | http://andy.zibnet.us >> > SELECT * FROM users WHERE clue >0; >> > 0 rows returned >> > _______________________________________________ >> > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> > tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> >> >> >> ____________________________________________________________________________________ >> Be a better friend, newshound, and >> know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ