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

[Chris Trown]

Duncan Brown 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?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Dunc


      I just finished the install of a SMC PCI wireless card into my FC3 
box.  It talks with a Linksys Wireless router/firewall.

      Was it plug and chug?  No.  But if you follow the directions, it's 
not too difficult.  Setting up WEP was relatively easy, too.  I gave up 
on WEP and went with WPA because WEP is so insecure(15 minutes to break 
a key).  That was more involved.

      There seem to be two chipsets which seem to be well supported in 
Linux.  Atheros and Realtek.  Read the following for more info:

http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/

      It's a pretty good resource listing available chipsets and their 
Linux support status.

      If you go Atheros and want some help, let me know.

Chris...

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