Mailing List Archive: OT: Wireless Network Connections

OT: Wireless Network Connections

Nov 29, 2002, 12:13 PM

Post #1 of 6 (2151 views)

OK, this is pretty off topic, BUT I think that many people would like to
connect their MythTV STB to the Internet via a wireless connection. My
router is FAR away from my cable connection, and my house isn't very
friend to stringing cables under the house...I'm sure others are in the
same boat.

So, does anyone have any knownledge of wireless NICs under Linux? I
recently bought a Linksys PCI NIC but now I'm not sure if the new version
work well under Linux. Anyone have input/ideas?

If it's too off topic, route to /dev/null :(

Jeremy

Re: OT: Wireless Network Connections [ In reply to ]

alex at gossamer-threads

Nov 29, 2002, 12:22 PM

Post #2 of 6 (2110 views)

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Hi,

> OK, this is pretty off topic, BUT I think that many people would like to
> connect their MythTV STB to the Internet via a wireless connection. My
> router is FAR away from my cable connection, and my house isn't very
> friend to stringing cables under the house...I'm sure others are in the
> same boat.
>
> So, does anyone have any knownledge of wireless NICs under Linux? I
> recently bought a Linksys PCI NIC but now I'm not sure if the new version
> work well under Linux. Anyone have input/ideas?
>
>
> If it's too off topic, route to /dev/null :(

I've got a SMC USB wireless working:

http://www.smc.com/index.cfm?sec=Products&pg=Product-Details&prod=268&site=c

(you can get a refurbished one for $45 at techforless.com). They have linux
drivers on their site, but the open source ones work as well. The USB works
for me as I can hide the antenna in the cabinet the set top box is in.

Cheers,

Alex

RE: OT: Wireless Network Connections [ In reply to ]

rpage at chiba

Nov 29, 2002, 12:23 PM

Post #3 of 6 (2110 views)

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If it's prism based (and I think it is) checkout the wlan-ng project.
The drivers work well.

I'll let you google for it.

Randy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-dev-admin@snowman.net
[mailto:mythtv-dev-admin@snowman.net]
> On Behalf Of Jeremy Oddo
> Sent: Friday, November 29, 2002 12:13 PM
> To: MythTV
> Subject: [mythtv] OT: Wireless Network Connections
>
> OK, this is pretty off topic, BUT I think that many people would like
to
> connect their MythTV STB to the Internet via a wireless connection.
My
> router is FAR away from my cable connection, and my house isn't very
> friend to stringing cables under the house...I'm sure others are in
the
> same boat.
>
> So, does anyone have any knownledge of wireless NICs under Linux? I
> recently bought a Linksys PCI NIC but now I'm not sure if the new
version
> work well under Linux. Anyone have input/ideas?
>
>
> If it's too off topic, route to /dev/null :(
>
>
> Jeremy
>
>
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RE: OT: Wireless Network Connections [ In reply to ]

joddo at apixels

Nov 29, 2002, 12:27 PM

Post #4 of 6 (2094 views)

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> If it's prism based (and I think it is) checkout the wlan-ng project.
> The drivers work well.
>
That's the problem...it's not. Correctly me if I'm wrong, but version 2.7
IS NOT prism-based. Does anyone know of a current prism-based wireless
PCI NIC?

>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mythtv-dev-admin@snowman.net
> [mailto:mythtv-dev-admin@snowman.net]
>> On Behalf Of Jeremy Oddo
>> Sent: Friday, November 29, 2002 12:13 PM
>> To: MythTV
>> Subject: [mythtv] OT: Wireless Network Connections
>>
>> OK, this is pretty off topic, BUT I think that many people would like
> to
>> connect their MythTV STB to the Internet via a wireless connection.
> My
>> router is FAR away from my cable connection, and my house isn't very
>> friend to stringing cables under the house...I'm sure others are in
> the
>> same boat.
>>
>> So, does anyone have any knownledge of wireless NICs under Linux? I
>> recently bought a Linksys PCI NIC but now I'm not sure if the new
> version
>> work well under Linux. Anyone have input/ideas?
>>
>>
>> If it's too off topic, route to /dev/null :(
>>
>>
>> Jeremy
>>
>>
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Re: OT: Wireless Network Connections [ In reply to ]

joddo at apixels

Nov 29, 2002, 1:29 PM

Post #5 of 6 (2112 views)

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> Hi,
>
>> OK, this is pretty off topic, BUT I think that many people would like
>> to connect their MythTV STB to the Internet via a wireless connection.
>> My router is FAR away from my cable connection, and my house isn't
>> very friend to stringing cables under the house...I'm sure others are
>> in the same boat.
>>
>> So, does anyone have any knownledge of wireless NICs under Linux? I
>> recently bought a Linksys PCI NIC but now I'm not sure if the new
>> version work well under Linux. Anyone have input/ideas?
>>
>>
>> If it's too off topic, route to /dev/null :(
>
> I've got a SMC USB wireless working:
>
> http://www.smc.com/index.cfm?sec=Products&pg=Product-Details&prod=268&site=c
>
> (you can get a refurbished one for $45 at techforless.com). They have
> linux drivers on their site, but the open source ones work as well. The
> USB works for me as I can hide the antenna in the cabinet the set top
> box is in.
>
Hmmm...USB *and* it has Linux drivers? I think we have a winner ;)
Thanks for the info. I think I'll travel to Fry's and see if they have one.

Jeremy

Re: OT: Wireless Network Connections [ In reply to ]

help at pdscc

Nov 29, 2002, 2:31 PM

Post #6 of 6 (2121 views)

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On 29 Nov 2002 at 11:13, Jeremy Oddo wrote:

> OK, this is pretty off topic, BUT I think that many people would like to
> connect their MythTV STB to the Internet via a wireless connection. My
> router is FAR away from my cable connection, and my house isn't very
> friend to stringing cables under the house...I'm sure others are in the
> same boat.

Use phone line networking, gives you 10mb/s and IIRC they have 100mb/s.
Wireless is usually about 2-6mb/s in real world use. It will share the same
phone line(s) you use for dsl so no issues there.

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