[mythtv-users] Broadcom CrystalHD(usbwless)

Jarod Wilson jarod at wilsonet.com
Thu Jan 7 15:48:46 UTC 2010


On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 9:27 AM,  <bhaskins at chartermi.net> wrote:
>
> ---- Jarod Wilson <jarod at wilsonet.com> wrote:
>> On Jan 6, 2010, at 3:36 PM, Matt Emmott wrote:
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>
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>> These systems have onboard GPUs, built into their system boards, they aren't on a mini pci-e card. The Crystal HD is a mini pci-e card, which in the case of the Mac Mini and AppleTV, does indeed have to supplant the existing wireless card. So if your system has no wired network connection, you'll have to get an external usb one,
> ///
> I have found it very difficult to find a half-way decent USB wireless stick that works using WPA
> and Linux.
> By decent I mean plug it in, set up security and then it just works;
> I do not mean a card where I have to mess with int every time
> I move it to a different box.
> The are some very good PCMCIA wireless cards but they may be
> getting hard to find and will only work in the high end laptops..

Why would you be moving it around to different boxes?

I've got an rt2870-based 802.11n stick (mfg Edimax, iirc) that works
just fine all the time after initial setup, including use of WPA.

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com


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