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So I'm looking at AT&T Wireless' latest GoPhone offerings, which all have a true data cable so I could take the laptop, hook it up to the cell phone, and get online.

Not really.  The data cables are all USB (which makes sence, it's four lines v. nine with Serial, and faster).  Unfortunately, my laptop doesn't have USB nor 32-bit Cardbus (to add USB ports to) capability.  DOH!

*sigh*

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Argh.  My old USB scanner wasn't dying.  XSane (the front end) was screwing up, and was one revision down.  I forced an upgrade and will be cluing in Slackware about it.

But Xili sent up a new scanner.  I'll keep it, and give Xili the commission when shi's ready.  It's smaller, more capable, and saves one power port, so happiness will ensue.

Next up, I'll be looking into Compact Flash USB host cards.