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

[Duncan Brown]

Robert Denier wrote:

>WG311T works with the atheros (madwifi) driver, or at least the version
>I have does...
>
>On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 08:19 -0500, Mercury Morris wrote:
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>>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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>>MM
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Hey

Did you manage to get it working with WPA-PSK? If so, can you give me a 
quick rundown? I've managed to set up WPA on all manner of linux boxes 
before but fedora seems to have me stumped.

 From the rest of the posts on here it seems the netgear card should 
work fine with the madwifi drivers, so maybe i'll give it another try..

thanks

Dunc