On 10/19/05, Duncan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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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