[mythtvnz] Minimum specs for PVR

[Open Media Support]

> Open Media Support wrote:
>>> I am currently experimenting with a loaner SP13000 with intent to buy.
>>> I
>>> am running "minimyth" which is a 90M MythTV distro(!!!). I'm running it
>>> diskless, via PXE-boot (and NFS) from a central server with 200G
>>> allocated diskspace. I'm running it over 100M Ethernet - but even over
>>> 802.11g wireless it works 99% of the time (wireless tends to be not as
>>> consistent as Ethernet - especially when your card decides it has to
>>> drop the Access Point and reconnect). In fact I've my wife (Mac), my
>>> laptop (FC4) and this minimyth frontend all going simultaneously ;-)
>>>
>>
>> Jason - how do you cope with the drops on the wireless link. I've had a
>> couple of wireless machines where the link is regularly dropping and I
>> have to manually force a reconnect.
>>
> *** Jul 26 17:43:28 tnz-jhaar-lt kernel: ipw2200: Firmware error
> detected.  Restarting. ***
>
> It just handles the issue itself. However, the network is "hung" while
> it restarts. The Access Point shows similar events when this happens:
>
> *** Jul 26 17:43:29 012858: %DOT11-6-DISASSOC: Interface Dot11Radio0,
> Deauthenticating Station ***
> *** Jul 26 17:43:32 012859: %DOT11-6-ASSOC: Interface Dot11Radio0,
> Station   associated ***
>
> 3 second outage. Probably a wireless driver-specific issue. After all,
> there's native, madwifi, ipw2*, etc.

Need to find a better source of cards with native drivers. If you are
running ndiswrapper based cards its isn't as good at recovering.

Steve