Duncan Brown 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?
Thanks
Dunc
I just finished the install of a SMC PCI wireless card into my FC3
box. It talks with a Linksys Wireless router/firewall.
Was it plug and chug? No. But if you follow the directions, it's
not too difficult. Setting up WEP was relatively easy, too. I gave up
on WEP and went with WPA because WEP is so insecure(15 minutes to break
a key). That was more involved.
There seem to be two chipsets which seem to be well supported in
Linux. Atheros and Realtek. Read the following for more info:
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/
It's a pretty good resource listing available chipsets and their
Linux support status.
If you go Atheros and want some help, let me know.
Chris...
--
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little
temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" -- Benjamin
Franklin
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