[mythtv-users] wireless usb

Greg Oliver oliver.greg at gmail.com
Sat Jan 9 15:14:30 UTC 2010


On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 9:04 AM,  <bhaskins at chartermi.net> wrote:
>
> ---- Jarod Wilson <jarod at wilsonet.com> wrote:
> My last reply seems to have been eaten by the email congress ( sorry, congress
> happens to be the most profane word that I can think of ).
> In better times, I have done a lot of embedded/dedicated systems and in the
> process have used and purchased many wireless cards, mostly PCMCIA or PCI.
> Maybe I'm just spoiled, unlucky, or not gifted but I have never had anything approaching
> decent luck with any wireless parts by either ralink or broadcom.
> Spoiled comes from experience with Intel 2200bg or Atheros Ar5xxx, both of which just work,
> without wasting lots time and patience with constant loss of connections or having to use
>  ndiswrapper, dhciient, etc just to get up and connect.
> I just went through a real test of patience with a RT3070 ( which was advertised as
> an Atheros ) and a Dlink DWA-125 ( identified as a RT2770 ).
> I tried both of these under the last three versions of both Fedora and Ubuntu plus several
> other ( low resource ) distros.
> The D-link had a perfect score, it flunked every test!! and they even have the ~!@#
> to put a copy of the GNU in the box.
> The other, the fake Atheros, sort of worked, but nowhere near well enough to keep
> it out of the trash can.
>
> So Jarod, I do like what you add to this list and I'm happy that the ralink works for
> you but I will just have to keep searching for a working USB wireless card.
> I think that this might help anyone else, just forward it to the list, else -> null
> Thanks,
>  Bert
>

I have a linksys wusb600n which has a ralink chip - uses the rtlxxxx
driver and works great for me with the 2.6.32 compat-wireless package
on one of my frontends..

-Greg


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