[mythtv-users] [OT] Can anyone reccomend me a wireless nic for FC4?

[Robert Denier]

WG311T works with the atheros (madwifi) driver, or at least the version
I have does...

On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 08:19 -0500, Mercury Morris wrote:
> On 10/19/05, Duncan Brown <mythtv at duncb.co.uk> wrote:
>         Hey guys
>         
>         Sorry to go a bit off topic, but I'm looking to set my myth
>         box up
>         wirelessly. I'm asking here as I figured there would be quite
>         a few of
>         you on here using FC3/4.
>         
>         I recently tried a Netgear WG311T but couldn't for the life of
>         me get 
>         any form of encryption working. The problem stemmed from the
>         windows
>         driver via ndiswrapper being too large for the default kernel
>         stack (or
>         something like that,  a known Fedora problem apparently), and
>         so I had 
>         to use the madwifi driver. This worked perfectly unencrypted,
>         but its
>         hardly ideal. The card has since gone into another Linux box
>         just fine,
>         so no real loss..
>         
>         So anyway, I'll be buying another one very shortly, the
>         requirements 
>         being 54Mbs minimum, and with WPA-PSK working happily  (WEP
>         would do
>         though). I'm fairly competent Linux wise, but a card that
>         works with the
>         minimum of fuss would be nice.
>         
>         Anyone got any ideas from personal experience? 
>         
> 
> I have a similar combination - WG311T and FC3 - using WEP, working
> well.
> 
> Was it a "minimum of fuss" ?  No, but right close to minimum, perhaps
> because I also have the companion to the WG311T - the WGT624 Wireless
> Firewall Router.
> 
> Surprisingly smooth madwifi installation followed by some
> trial-and-error to get the WEP keys working.  This all happened some
> months ago, but I remember that I started with no keys at all, just to
> see if the equipment would work.  After bringing up the network
> connection without WEP, I entered a single WEP key into the WGT624 and
> the same key into /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ath0.
> 
> The first try at a WEP key didn't work, so after searching forums and
> mailing lists, I entered the key in quotes followed by the word
> "restricted".  The line in 
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ath0 is:
> 
> KEY="XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX restricted"
> 
> After this last bit of tweaking, the wireless connection has been
> stable and reliable.  
> 
> If you still have problems after trying to get your new card working,
> I can add more information from all the notes made during the
> trial-and-error period.
> 
> Good Luck !
> 
> -- 
> MM
> 
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