[mythtv-users] reccomendations for wireless PCI nic

Joseph Caputo jcaputo1 at comcast.net
Sun Mar 6 14:11:54 UTC 2005


David Whyte wrote:
>>I have a DLink DWL650 PCMCIA card supported by the madwifi project and
>>it works very well.
> 
> 
> 
> You do?  And it works well?
> 
> I have the D-Link PCI DWL-520+ and DWL-G520+, which are pretty much
> the 650 card in a PCI form I believe but I gather the support is very
> bad.  I couldn't get the to work using KnoppMyth :(

Don't know if this is true any more, but back when I added wireless to 
my setup (2 years ago), the "Plus" type cards from D-Link used a chipset 
that was not supported at all under Linux (i.e., DWL-520 was fine, but 
DWL-520+ was not).  Again, that all may have changed since then.

-JAC


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