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
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