[mythtv-users] reccomendations for wireless PCI nic
Andrew Gallatin
gallatin at cs.duke.edu
Mon Mar 7 13:58:28 UTC 2005
Keith Olsen [detchbung at shaw.ca] wrote:
> Looking around I found a few resources for wirelss under Linux, but they seem to refer to cards that are no longer marketed....
>
> anybody have a reccomendations for something currently available with good support under linux?
I'm using a D-Link DWL-G510 PCI adapter via NDIS wrapper. What a
mistake. It "works", but not well. Eg, it looses and regains
associativity with my AP every 5 seconds. So the load spikes a bit
every 5 seconds, causing slightly jittery playback. And packets get
dropped every 5 seconds, making ssh session pure misery. I'm pretty
sure this is a windows driver bug or windows driver workaround for a
hardware bug.
The "get a wireless bridge" or "get a wireless gaming adaptor" is
probably the easiest thing to do. That way, you know it will work
(assuming your on-board wired ethernet interface works), and you're
not introducing yet another kernel module dependent on an out-of-tree
project.
Drew
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