Media Center with WiFi.


Now playing in my living room as I watch movies, and TV Shows that I bought are going to compete with the new Wireless N USB adapter that can let me watch movies and go on the internet at the same time.

Here are the steps I have taken to get it working:

  1. Get a media center
  2. Wipe Windows off of it.
  3. Install Mythbuntu
  4. Have Mythbuntu malfunction
  5. Install Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
  6. Install dcss2 which makes Ubuntu able to play movies from a disc.
  7. Install proprietary ATI drivers.
  8. Resize the screen with the screen resolution application in The System>Preferences>Screen Resolution.
  9. Install ndisgtk (which also installs ndiswrapper-common and ndiswrapper-utils-1.9)
    sudo apt-get install ndisgtk
  10. Open Gnome-terminal: Type in Command: ndisgtk > choose to install driver> go to the .inf file in the directory from where you copied it off the cd. Click Done after.
  11. I always do this after I install drivers: Reboot (for those who love to do this in the command line: sudo shutdown -r now )

Thats it. I have worked on this problem for a couple of months now and have finally figured it out!

Ryan Orser


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