RBW wrote:
Lan Barnes wrote:
On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 11:38:57AM -0700, RBW wrote:
Lan Barnes wrote:
She won't let you punch out some walls and drill through her floors!
That's outRAGEOUS! That just won't DO!
Yeah, but I've grown fond of her.
That being thae case... That reply from Chris on your WiFi thread
seems to be the fastest way to actually get something running. Use a
wireless router/bridge that can wirelessly connect to your base
wireless router by wired connection between that second router/bridge
and the MythTV box. This can solve the one problem while giving you
time to fish around for the problem of wireless from the MythTV box
itself.
It's a way to just go around the problem to get the immeadiate
problem solved (wireless for the MythTV box).
Make sense?
RBW
lemme get this straight. I can make two wireless router/hubs talk to
each other? Because I happen to already _have_ two wireless router/hubs.
So I could put one downstairs in the <cough> TV area and leave the other
upstairs. And even the laptop could have a short cat 5 in the living
room for those moments when I want to work on data base stuff while
watching the Padres (assuming wantonly that there will be any reason to
watch the Padres this season).
Is it just a turn-it-on-and-it-works sort of thing?
Careful, this is Linux, not that other OS for that crowd trying to
figure out if they should upgrade from W98SE if it is "just a
turn-it-on-and-it-works sort of thing"...
This wireless networking thing can be done with an actual bridge unit
cat5'd to your ethernet 10/100 port/card OR you can use some of the 3rd
party software that has been mentioned to turn a wireless router into a
WDS/repeater/bridge device.
I do it by making a cat5 connection from my laptop to a WRT54Gv1,2,3
unit running in WDS mode which connects wirelessly to the base unit cat
5'd to the cable modem. This is part of the reason why I haven't
bothered to get a Wireless G PCMCIA card yet because this (I've been
following your trials and tribulations closely), in effect, has me
connecting to the network via 802.11G (taking into considerations the
WDS throughput realities). For normal PCMCIA connectivity I have a
Linksys WPC11v3 802.11b card which works fine under SUSE and FC4.
The good news is that it is a GUI configuration on the routers instead
of patching and hacking config files on your system when you take this
appraoch. I personally use DD-WRT as my 3rd party software but I know
others use OpenWRT, etc to get the job done.
Basically it boils down to the fact that the network doesn't care what
OS is on the user nodes; the network can be configured to reliably
"talk" from any one point on the network to any other point on the
network even if the enduser OS doesn't want to play ball.
RBW
For this wireless stuff, have you (Lan) considered going the 110VAC wall
plug wired connection? The product is called Home Plug and you can get
it at Fry's, CompUSA, maybe even WalMart. Something like this
<http://www.dreamhardware.com/store/product/index.php?product_id=116192>
may solve your problem. You'll need at least 7Mbps to stream the MythTV
MPEG2-PS stream.
Gus
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