<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/19/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Duncan Brown</b> <<a href="mailto:mythtv@duncb.co.uk">mythtv@duncb.co.uk</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hey guys<br><br>Sorry to go a bit off topic, but I'm looking to set my myth box up<br>wirelessly. I'm asking here as I figured there would be quite a few of<br>you on here using FC3/4.<br><br>I recently tried a Netgear WG311T but couldn't for the life of me get
<br>any form of encryption working. The problem stemmed from the windows<br>driver via ndiswrapper being too large for the default kernel stack (or<br>something like that, a known Fedora problem apparently), and so I had
<br>to use the madwifi driver. This worked perfectly unencrypted, but its<br>hardly ideal. The card has since gone into another Linux box just fine,<br>so no real loss..<br><br>So anyway, I'll be buying another one very shortly, the requirements
<br>being 54Mbs minimum, and with WPA-PSK working happily (WEP would do<br>though). I'm fairly competent Linux wise, but a card that works with the<br>minimum of fuss would be nice.<br><br>Anyone got any ideas from personal experience?
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I have a similar combination - WG311T and FC3 - using WEP, working well.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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 <br>
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ath0 is:<br>
<br>
KEY="XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX restricted"<br>
<br>
After this last bit of tweaking, the wireless connection has been stable and reliable. <br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
Good Luck !<br>
<br>
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MM<br>
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