I'll take whatever I can get, but don't ship until I look at a picture of a full PCI slot. If I recall correctly, PCIE is backwards compatible to PCI, provided the slot has all the pins.
THe specific project this is for is a PC-based router. I need more control over my internet than my cheesy cheap router gives me (as demonstrated by the mentally ill kid that keeps rationalizing not following the rules she makes for herself), but I'm lacking a wifi card. The PC slated for this project has two PCIE slots of slightly different sizes, and an onboard ethernet. So, to make this work, I need a total of three ethernet ports: 1 for the internet, 1 for the LAN switch, and one for the wifi router (used in lieu of a wifi card, where the cheap wifi router will become a simple pass-through device).
I won't have the fullest control I want until I have a wifi card, so if anybody has one of those to send instead, that'd be great. It has to support master mode in Linux, which is the rub for me, because I actually have three wifi cards that are loose right now, just that they all use ndiswrappers, which doesn't give me access to master mode. Ideally, it'll also be an 802.11N card, because our phones/tablets can go that fast, but G would be fine. So, if anybody has one of those laying around (which I doubt, they're pretty in demand right now), I'll take it, but I'm expecting to buy one at some point.
For that matter, an older, less power-intensive PC would be great, too, but now I'm just freeloading, heh.
Obviously the thing's going to run headless, managed via ssh (unless I dream up a web interface for it. I haven't found any web interfaces that look reasonable for what I want). Also, with the PC I'm putting it on, it would be the obvious place to put one of the official arma servers, whenever I get back to that project, because it'll have so much idle time just passing packets back and forth. It'll be the bored fireman just handing the bucket on to the next guy while working out General Relativity in his head.
