figured it was high time to wifi my apartment up - my mum hates clutter and snaking wires, and my dad wants to bring back his notebook from work periodically.

there are two computers at home - one mine, another for my parents. instead of lugging them both to lowyat, i bravely decided to install the PCI wifi network cards myself.

popped into lowyat and bought them, as well as a wifi router. spent RM345. worth it - it’s after all, Project Make Parents Happy, haha

everything was going well with the installation on my puter, the only snag was configuring the router to dial out. a quick call to streamyx hotline solved that.

next - my parents computer. the pci slot just wouldn’t detect the card! i tried exasperatedly, i removed the card from my puter and slotted into theirs, tried both cards on my computer, tried all three PCI slots on their computer, reinstalled the driver and uninstalled, disabled the previous lan settings. everything!

finally, out of frustration, i decided to really SHOVE the card into the slot and what d’ya know - it went in deeper. i didn’t push hard enough was the problem!!!!!!!!!

arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

but it’s all good now :) our house has wireless goodness and my parents are happy parents. yay!

published on Apr 21 07 at 6:47 pm under category : personal.