On 6/25/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">R. Cody Erben</b> <<a href="mailto:erben22@mtnaircomputer.net">erben22@mtnaircomputer.net</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
>I have an extra USB 2.0 wireless adapter (Cheap AirLink AWLL4030) that<br> >I have managed to get working with Knoppix live DVD using Ndiswrapper.<br> ><br> >Now my question:<br> ><br> >Does anyone use a USB wireless adapter on their Xbox for MythTV? I am
<br> >worried that the Xbox's USB 1.1 (12 Mbps I think?) may not be fast<br> >enough for streaming of live video.<br><br>Not the exact same setup, but I'm running a frontend on a Dell Inspiron<br>8100, USB1.1, Belkin F5D7050 USB WLAN adpater, ZD1211 driver, and cannot
<br>use the frontend over wireless. In my setup, only 802.11b is supported<br>with the USB1.1 connection with the ZD1211 driver.<br><br>The frontend spits out a bunch of pre-buffering messages, and from a<br>little bit of poking around, it seems like this occurs with
802.11b<br>connections, at least in the USB adapter scenario. I'd love to try a<br>PCMCIA 802.11g card that I used to use, but alas, my PCMCIA slots<br>tangled with a toddler and lost, necessitating me to investigate the USB
<br>WLAN path.<br><br>If I drag a lan cable across the hallway and hookup that way, the<br>frontend is able to play just fine, so it looks like the 802.11b<br>connection cannot keep up. In googling around (look for the<br>
prebuffering/pre-buffering error messages from mythfrontend), I think I<br>saw notes where people with 802.11g setups were having success, so if<br>there is a way to run G over USB1.1, you might have some success.<br><br>
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http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br></blockquote></div><br>Good point. I guess the real question is whether one can get 802.11G to work over USB 1.1.<br><br>Anybody successful?<br><br>I found this How To (
<a href="http://xbox-linux.org/wiki/Xebian_ndiswrapper_HOWTO">http://xbox-linux.org/wiki/Xebian_ndiswrapper_HOWTO</a>) on how to upgrade Ndiswrapper on Xebian, so I know someone has done it. I just wonder if it is fast enough for MythTV...
<br><br>Thanks again!!<br><br>Jason<br>