<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/25/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Pete Cap</b> <<a href="mailto:peteoutside@yahoo.com">peteoutside@yahoo.com</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;">
Hello all,<br><br>I'm building my girlfriend a myth box.<br>...<br><br>Any advice is welcome.</blockquote><div><br>I myself am trying to go wireless... Brought 1 PCI (Atheros something), 1 USB (Atheros 5523) and 1 router (all TP-Link)... It's a nightmare to set everything up:
<br>1) PCI works with a 3rd party module called madwifi. As I'm running vmware-server, I need to patch madwifi to get vmware to bridge with the wireless interface.<br>2) USB needs ndiswrapper (and windows driver). To get that to work, apparantly I must disable SMP and set up a 8K/16K kernel (Does ndiswrapper really fail with SMP on?)
<br><br>Trying to "secure" my network, and I find out that there's: WPA-PSK, WPA2, TKIP, RSN..... WTF? Why can't they make this easier? It seems like one patch job on top of another... <br><br>Configuring the card is complicated by the fact that there is an unprotected wifi near my place, and my wireless cards always associated with it on the get go.
<br><br>Took me 1 whole week of research and trial&error before I get my networking up and running (with WPA2-PSK, whatever that means.<br><br>But HDTV playback is still patchy!!! Sighz.<br><br>My advice, use wireless bridge, or go wired all the way....
<br><br><br>Regards,<br>Tj<br><br></div></div>