I am looking to buy a PCI wireless card for my mythtv box. Can you guys recommend a 802.11g card that will work out of the box with R4V4.x?

Thanks!

nope

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"nope", you can't recommend one?
or
"nope", knoppmyth doesn't support any wifi cards out of the box?

The second thing. if you search the forums you should find some discussion about various people's struggles with these.

I did search the forums and found nothing except references to 802.11b cards, and they were from 2003.

Anyways, if anyone has had success with 802.11g and KnoppMyth, please post here, any advice is helpful.

Dude, you need better search terms or something. This is discussed here WEEKLY if not daily. I entered the search terms "wireless network", clicked the "search for all words" radio button to make that an "AND" rather than an "OR", hit the search button, and then picked the first of a couple dozen recent threads that caught my eye. The following thread discusses attempts to get a high speed wireless adaptor (11g) working.

http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1694

Searching for:

wireless network - 22 hist
802.11g - 29 hiits
wifi - 11 hits
...

This all took me less than 5 minutes...

Thanks for the pointer, and thanks for the welcome. I already feel that I am a welcome member of this community.

sorry I could have been more helpful, but as some other probably noticed I was in a rather foul mood today. The story is there are several 802.11b cards that work out of the box. There are no 802.11g cards that work out of the box, that's not to say that you can't download the drivers and make them work, but 802.11g is just simply not an out of the box feature in the current release of knoppmyth.

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I appreciate the hints. Any recommendations on which brand or chiptype 802.11g cards would be easiest to install? Any experience?

I'm deeply befuddled by the number of newbies who "have searched the forum" but not found stuff that seemingly obvious searches turned up. This is a serious quest for knowledge with an eye to helping future newbies. What was(were) the missing bit(s) of information that made your search fail? Where did the process breakdown?

- Did you find and use the search button at the top of the page, or where you manually browsing the foum? (It's certainly not the most strongly emphasized search button I've ever seen.) Would making this button more obvious help?

- If you did use the search button, did you have trouble picking useful search terms? Were the terms you picked too specific (no hits), or too broad (too many hits)? Would suggestions for how to pick search terms on the search page help? Did you notice the "search for all/any terms" toggle?

- If you used the search and got hits, were the thread subjects either completely off base or so vague as to be useless? (Many people either do not use descriptive subjects or threads drift wildly from the original subject. For example: http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1150 has a great deal of information on getting TV-Out working with the NForce2 IGP but you'd never know it from the subject.)

BTW - Welcome to the mysettopbox.tv forums! We really are nice folks, just somewhat tired and cranky ones.

I must admit that IMHO "all words" should be the default setting. I know I have forgotten on more than one occasion on both phpbb and ubb boards and gotten all kinds of irrelevant junk thinking this doesn't have all my search terms then just smack myself and go check the box.

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Well to start with:
1) Yes
2) I'm pretty good at searching (something I do alot daily), so I generally try different combinations, based on perceived uniqueness.
3) Maybe
4) I did not notice this, and it was probably the problem, I tend to default to "google-like" searches, so did't chagnge this toggle.

I agree that defaulting to "all words" would be a good solution for me.

I did searches like (going from memory here):
wireless 802.11g card
54g wifi card
etc

Getting 802.11G working may be a challenge under Linux. I managed to get a SMC2802 v2 working under linux (check the prism54 website and the list of supported cards):

http://www.prism54.org

I had to recompile to get it to work so like Xsecrets said, it won't work out of the box.

Another approach would be to buy an access point which can be configured in client mode (or bridging mode). Then connect the Myth box through Ethernet to the access point. Now you won't have to configure any WLAN things under Linux which may save you a lot of trouble. The price for an access point may be in the same range as a WLAN adapter that works under Linux.