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

[Mercury Morris]

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 !

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