I use this card on my laptop (inspiron 700m) and it works flawlessy... you need to use the kernel module ipw2200.
Vic Kevin Kuphal wrote: > Darren Black wrote: > >> I just bought myself a Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop (wasn't keen on >> buying Dell, but the price was good and it's a surprisingly nice >> machine). The machine contains an Intel 2200 wifi card as part of the >> Centrino package. My attempts to get the card working well in FC4 >> have been, well... ugly would probably be the best word. That's >> perhaps a little beside the point of this post. >> >> What I'm really wondering is if anybody here uses such a card under >> linux to stream TV/recordings over. In the times I have actually had >> the card functioning, the wireless connection was unable to sustain a >> constant stream (without pausing and jitter). My streams are from a >> PVR150 card and encoded at up to 8500kbit/sec. I have tried turning >> the bitrate down to 6500 which helped, but not for very long. My >> previous wireless gear was some DLink "b+" standard equipment. My >> current router is a Linksys WRT54GS. I should be getting better >> throughput with this setup, however this is not the case in Linux (to >> this point at least). Performance in Windoze is alot better - the >> same recordings play back problem free using dsmyth. >> >> I suspect that my inability to configure the card correctly is the >> cause of the poor performance, but I'd like some feedback to either >> confirm or disprove this hypothesis. So do let me know :-) > > > While I can't answer your question here, Dell does make some Linux > resources available. Try here as your starting point for your > investigation: > > http://linux.dell.com/desktops.shtml > > Kevin > -- _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
