I'd take it off your hands, never know when a router would come in handy (heard about this a few months ago in a podcast, sounded kind of bulshitty but a router's a router). Maybe if you're hitting Laika on a weekday sometime check if I'm online, defintely worth a run across the street.

As to the problems, could it be the Nux? Obviously I'm the last person to want to blame the penguin for things not working (especially when the information is so stupidly designed, no pdf, WTF!?), but in using Ubuntu I consistently find wireless to be it's biggest weakness, it couldn't even connect to the shared wifi connection out of Mira's iMac g5. They clearly weren't focussing on supporting anything but windows, which is stupid considering how appealing this k ind of thing is to the hip, opensourcy mac/linux users, but might at least explain the lack of functioning. The fact that they alienated you with their bad decisions and and rude behavior is of course seperate