Ok as I type this I am waiting for my case to be delivered today to make my first HTPC. My computer along with my router is in another room of my apartment so it is essential that I get my HTPC to go wireless to grab its content for the TV channels and such. I am a complete newb to linux(as in I have yet to even lay my eyes on it since I haven't installed knoppmyth yet).

I have read a few walkthroughs(ndswrapper and other options), but so far I am still confused and I am curious what the easiest way is to get your HTPC wireless when running knoppmyth. If it means I need to order a a new wireless adapter I will, but I just want to make this as painless as possible for my first HTPC build. Here is my hardware list along with the wireless adapter and my linksys router which is running WEP security.

Sorry if I posted this in the wrong place or just to be blunt about all of it, but like I said I am a newb to linux and I just spent this money on parts and I just want to be able to get this thing up and running this weekend while I am off from work. Thanks in advance.

List:
Case: Athenatech A3701BB Black Aluminum Face Plate / Steel Chassis ATX


[b]CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice 2.0GHz Socket 754

Mobo: GIGABYTE GA-K8NE Socket 754 NVIDIA nForce4 4X ATX

RAM: CORSAIR ValueSelect 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200)

HDD: SAMSUNG SpinPoint T Series HD321KJ 320GB 7200 RPM

Tuner: Hauppauge WinTV-PVR 500 MCE

Video: ASUS EN7300LE/HTD/128M GeForce 7300LE Supporting to 512MB

PSU: SeaSonic S12-330 ATX12V 330W

DVD: NEC 18X DVD±R DVD Burner With 12X DVD-RAM

Wireless: GIGABYTE GN-WP01GS IEEE 802.11b/g PCI Wireless Adapter

Router: Linksys WRT54G with WEP security on it at the moment.

Hmm, I don't think the KnoppMyth distro has the drivers for this in it, but apparently they can be downloaded and compiled:

http://www.cube.co.za/~tiaan/workbench/wireless-link.html

The install seems pretty straight forward from the docs, but I can't say for sure.

Me, I run an Atheros based wireless card which requires the download and compile of the madwifi package. This was reasonably easy, but then again, I've been messing with Linux for some time.

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Perth, Western Australia.

R5F1
P4 3.2Ghz (Northwood)
AsRock P4i65G
Nvidia FX5200 (Fanless)
512Mb PC 3200
2 x WDC WD1200JB-00FUA0 120Gb PATA
Atheros AR5212 802.11abg NIC
DVD-RW ASUS DRW-1608P2S
2 x DVICO DVB-T Lite

It seems like setting up wireless in Linux can be difficult if you are a newbe, so I ended up buying a Linksys WRT54GL wireless access point to use as a bridge.

The WRT54GL is open source and can be flashed with new firmware to make it do all kinds of cool things and can be had for about $45 from places like newegg. I downloaded and installed DD-WRT, which was easy. It actually puts a version of linux on the router and can make it do things like act as a bridge. Now all the ethernet ports on the access point can talk to my main access point in a transparent way. It works well and was easy to setup. My Knoppmyth box just DHCP's as though it were pluged into my main router.

I should warn you, I consider myself pretty technically savy. I have limited linux experience, but lots of general computer experience. I was pulling my hair out for several weeks trying to get knoppmyth to work. Don't expect it to be even remotely close to plug and play. Set aside lots and lots of time.

However, now that it is mostly working, I have to say that it is really, really cool. Much better than anything available in windows.

So this may sound like a dumb question, but should I download that to a cd or should I just have my linux machine hooked up to the internet and do it that way.

I guess I am just confused about how to download and such because so far everything I have read has all these wierd paths and such. I am sure once I get it all installed I may understand a bit more.

If you are able to connect your myth machine to the internet in order to setup the wireless, that would be the easiest.

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Perth, Western Australia.

R5F1
P4 3.2Ghz (Northwood)
AsRock P4i65G
Nvidia FX5200 (Fanless)
512Mb PC 3200
2 x WDC WD1200JB-00FUA0 120Gb PATA
Atheros AR5212 802.11abg NIC
DVD-RW ASUS DRW-1608P2S
2 x DVICO DVB-T Lite

Well the machine is up and running, but I can't say the same for knoppmyth. I did the install and for now I am using a network cable stretching from room to room and I can get in and set up my mythtv stuff. I got it to show all my channels and such, but when watchin live tv on it my hauppage 500 is having the static or snow effect like others have described. I tried to download firefox and now have no clue how to install it. Essentially what I am saying is I have no clue what I am doing lol. I hate to be a pain, but I need some help.

I can't help with your Hauppage issue, as I don't use one myself, but in order to install firefox, simply doing:



will download and install firefox for you.

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Perth, Western Australia.

R5F1
P4 3.2Ghz (Northwood)
AsRock P4i65G
Nvidia FX5200 (Fanless)
512Mb PC 3200
2 x WDC WD1200JB-00FUA0 120Gb PATA
Atheros AR5212 802.11abg NIC
DVD-RW ASUS DRW-1608P2S
2 x DVICO DVB-T Lite