[gentoo-amd64] Wifi adaptor recommendations

[Duncan]

I'm moving at the end of the month.  The city is buying out the property 
and paying for movers, etc.  They're actually supposed to give a 90-day 
notice, but they want to move faster than that, so they're actually 
paying to put me up in a nice short-stay hotel (3-star, Homewood Suites 
by Hilton) for that three months.  There's more to the package as well, 
but that's the bit in focus ATM.

That's nice as it's three months I won't have to pay rent and 
utilities... and it's definitely an upgrade from what I'm used to, as 
well, all paid.

But they have wifi, and my internet here is all wired.  So I need to 
arrange something to adapt to wireless.

One option, I actually do have an old wrt54gl router, flashed to openwrt, 
tho I've always kept the wifi off.  It's the old a/b/g and limited to 54 
Mbit/sec, but I could I suppose enable wireless, set it to client/adaptor 
mode (I guess that's what it's called), and keep the LAN side (primarily 
one computer, but I have my VoIP phone adaptor plugged into it too) setup 
exactly as it is.

I don't really want to buy a router at this point, as if/when I upgrade, 
I want to build my own amd64-based router/system (as posted in a thread 
here a year or so ago, but I've not done it yet), and it's way to short 
notice to consider building that thing for the hotel.  Tho I suppose I 
could buy a cheap one instead of an adapter for the computer /and/ 
possibly a new phone adaptor.

Alternatively, I could buy a proper modern wifi adaptor for the computer 
and upgrade to a different VoIP adaptor that has wifi as well... or just 
use the hotel phone (I don't have a cell) and stay local-only while I'm 
there.

But, unless it's effectively an Ethernet connected router, so no drivers, 
I'll need to pick it up and install drivers and a wifi config before I 
actually move, so I don't get stuck needing a connection to get the 
drivers to use /for/ the connection.

I could do either USB or PCIE card, tho I believe a PCIE connection's 
more robust, but OTOH, a USB connected device is more flexible in some 
ways.

So recommendations?

And reminder, a good howto on configuring the wrt54gl with openwrt for 
client mode, or whatever it's called (I haven't yet looked, it might 
actually be well covered on the openwrt site), would be useful and keep 
that option open as well.

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