The best things I have found is to have it NOT use wifi directly but hook on a ethernet 'game adapter'. Something like a Linksys WRT610N ... I use one for a machine that I can't get a wifi board to work in, and another hooked to a small switch, to provide the 'upstream' link to my blue ray DVD player for netflix, DLNA, etc, and have a POGO hooked up to it too. And a fairly long (5M) ethernet for when I want to use my laptop wired.
I have used the 'gaming adapters' for quite a while. Just got these as I was last upgrading my wireless network. ><> ... Jack -- Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart... Colossians 3:23 "If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the precipitate" - Henry J. Tillman "Anyone who has never made a mistake, has never tried anything new." - Albert Einstein "You don't manage people; you manage things. You lead people." - Admiral Grace Hopper, USN Life is complex: it has a real part and an imaginary part. - Martin Terma On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 11:47 PM, Bruce Layne <linux...@thinkingdevices.com>wrote: > I'm looking for a robust method to connect a LinuxCNC device to a WiFi > network. I bought some inexpensive USB dongles that are advertised as > plug-and-play on Linux, but they didn't work with LinuxCNC. They sort > of worked with Ubuntu. I could probably get them to work by installing > the driver using something like ndiswrapper, but every time I upgraded > to a new version of LinuxCNC, I'd need to slog through that again. I'm > looking for a more robust and persistent solution. > > I did a quick internet search but all I found were people asking the > question and getting no good answer, or people complaining about the > difficulty of implementing WiFi in LinuxCNC. > > Is there a USB solution that Just Works®? That would be my preference. > > I bought an inexpensive Chinese WiFi router that is reported to be good > at operating as a WiFi bridge. Theoretically, I could configure it once > and every version of LinuxCNC would see a reliable wired ethernet > connection coming from the WiFi bridge. Barring a magic USB device, > maybe that would be the best solution? > > I need a solution that I can replicate across several different LinuxCNC > devices for my Summer Of CNC Projects. :-) > > Comments? Suggestions? > > Thanks in advance. > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Introducing AppDynamics Lite, a free troubleshooting tool for Java/.NET > Get 100% visibility into your production application - at no cost. > Code-level diagnostics for performance bottlenecks with <2% overhead > Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_ap1 > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Introducing AppDynamics Lite, a free troubleshooting tool for Java/.NET Get 100% visibility into your production application - at no cost. Code-level diagnostics for performance bottlenecks with <2% overhead Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_ap1 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
