[mythtv-users] Broadcom CrystalHD(usbwless)

[Bill Williamson]

On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 1:27 AM,  <bhaskins at chartermi.net> wrote:
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> ---- Jarod Wilson <jarod at wilsonet.com> wrote:
>> On Jan 6, 2010, at 3:36 PM, Matt Emmott wrote:
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>> These systems have onboard GPUs, built into their system boards, they aren't on a mini pci-e card. The Crystal HD is a mini pci-e card, which in the case of the Mac Mini and AppleTV, does indeed have to supplant the existing wireless card. So if your system has no wired network connection, you'll have to get an external usb one,
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> I have found it very difficult to find a half-way decent USB wireless stick that works using WPA
> and Linux.
> By decent I mean plug it in, set up security and then it just works;
> I do not mean a card where I have to mess with int every time
> I move it to a different box.
> The are some very good PCMCIA wireless cards but they may be
> getting hard to find and will only work in the high end laptops..
> ///
>  hook up to a wired network, or not use this thing (I have wired connections myself).


With Ubuntu 9.04 (haven't upgraded yet) network manager works a dream.
 I plugged in an 802.11n dongle, it saw my network and remembers my
WPA2PSK key.  There was an "issue" where sometimes myth would autoload
about 2 seconds before it brought up the network connection, but
(mixed blessings!) .22 takes quite a bit longer to initially load up
so I always have network by the time it's autoloaded!