[mythtv-users] OT: Recommendation for a WLAN PCI card (UK-based)

[Ali Asad Lotia]

For folks using the MadWIFI drivers, have any of you experienced
problems pinging the wireless interface on your machine or making ssh
connections to it. I used the madwifi CVS snapshots from August 20th
and could not ssh in to my machine, nor could i ping it. i custom
compiled a kernel and am running gentoo, so i'm sure that there was no
firewall preventing either of those from occuring.

thanks,
ali

On 9/6/05, Martin Ebourne <lists at ebourne.me.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 05 Sep 2005 21:24:34 -0600, Andrew McNabb wrote:
> >> Having built another backend for some spares and some new capture cards,
> >> I want to get it accessible via WiFi on my network (g-based).
> >>
> >>
> > The best card currently available 802.11 card, in my opinion, is the
> > ALL0271, which uses the prism54 driver.  I've got a link and more info
> > written up at http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/linux/hardware/
> >
> > You won't need ndiswrapper or anything.
> 
> I can second this. I'm in the UK and have been using two of these (one in
> access point mode, and one in normal mode) to stream mythtv for over 6
> months.
> 
> The driver has been present in the kernel for ages, so all you need to do
> is drop the firmware in the right directory. And it's real firmware, not
> some dodgy binary blob run on the host processor.
> 
> Got mine from:
> 
> http://www.allnet-shop.de/oxid.php/sid/e115acea746ae2f54c9d7d835a0e32a0/cl/details/cnid/a84406f22b2ede837.19256220/anid/55a42aa04395d91d3.73886515/Wireless%20PCI%20Adapter%2054%20Mbit%20ALL0271/
> 
> I don't speak German, and the bloke at the other end didn't speak much
> english, which made it fun. :)
> 
> The shop guarantees that it works on Linux and the price has come well
> down, looks like a real bargain now.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Martin.
> 
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