Archive for August, 2007

Challenge #5 – Wireless

Posted by Ferndave August 21st, 2007

The mythbox will live either behind the TV or eventually in the basement. Running wired ethernet isn’t practical, so I’ll have to use a wireless adapter.
I chose the D-Link WDA-1320. It’s supported by madwifi on Linux and other people didn’t have much trouble getting it to work. Always a plus in Linux.
I had to [...]

MythTV And Mac

Posted by Ferndave August 9th, 2007

I want to use the MythTV as a headless box, if you don’t count the TV. The best way to do that is using a remote client like VNC. For the Mac, Chicken of the VNC works great. It gives you a remote GUI so it is like having the MythTV box right on my [...]

Challenge #4 – Installation and Video

Posted by Ferndave August 9th, 2007

I finally settled back to MythDora 4.0. While it was giving me fits, there is more included and just plain better. Not to mention, that I finally got it working.
What was the magic recipe? Umm…not positive. It was a matter of much trial and error. I know I did over 10 complete re-installs of MythDora [...]