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: > 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 ! > > -- > MM > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
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