[mythtv-users] reccomendations for wireless PCI nic

[Johannes Becker]

I made good experience with an Atheros based card. There are native
drivers available.


On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 08:58:28 -0500, Andrew Gallatin <gallatin at cs.duke.edu> wrote:
> 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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