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

[Kevin Kuphal]

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? 

If you don't care about a short ethernet cable and a power connection, 
use a wireless bridge to the ethernet interface on your machine and 
forget about wrestling with the wireless support in Linux.

Kevin