Driverless USB WiFi dongle?

[koocha]

So instead of them plugging in the dongle and, supposing autorun is enabled, it works without user intevention, they would need to insert a cd and go through a setup process which is what I wanted to avoid?

I'm not sure I understand what you're getting at

[directhex]

So instead of them plugging in the dongle and, supposing autorun is enabled, it works without user intevention, they would need to insert a cd and go through a setup process which is what I wanted to avoid?

I'm not sure I understand what you're getting at

if they run windows xp or 2k, then the thing will automatically install drivers for them - as long as they read the instruction manual, and only insert it when the system is fully booted. if they use anything else, e.g. a mac or vista... well, that's their problem, right?

[Lourdes]

You could always just burn some drivers to an 8cm CD-R if common OS's don't have native drivers.

[koocha]

Just read the manual for the ZyXEL one. It supports Win ME, 2K and XP 'driverlessly' and 98SE via drivers on CD.

No mention of Vista, but surely every laptop running vista would have wireless?

And Mac Books have had wireless in as standard for years now