Powerline HomePlug under Fedora, anyone?

[Timothy Murphy]

Zoltan Hoppar wrote:

> http://vxlabs.com/2011/03/02/dont-buy-homeplug-adapters/
> https://neon1.net/prog/plconfig.html

Thanks for your response.
As far as I could see, everyone in the first link was running Windows.
As I said, I'm perfectly happy with the Windows performance,
even with one HomePlug joined to a Linksys router 
attached to a CentOS server.

I tried compiling the program in the second link.
I wasn't too hopeful, since it dates from 2004,
but it did actually compile under Fedora-17, though with several warnings,
all I think concerned with string functions, eg strncopy.

However, when I ran "sudo ./plconfig eth0" it just hung.

I'll look again at this, but as I said I'm not too hopeful.
I'm quite surprised, as I would have thought quite a few Linux people
were using Powerline HomePlugs.

>> I have a TP-Link PA-211 kit with two adaptors to link my laptop
>> to a CentOS-6.3 server, or rather the Linksys router attached to the
>> server.
>>
>> According to TP-Link this setup works, or should work, with Linux.
>>
>> It works fine for me if I run Windows XP on the laptop,
>> but under Fedora-17 there is no link (eg as reported by ethtool).
>> The mini-CD user manual that comes with the kit
>> says it runs under Linux,
>> but all the software included is for Windows.
>>
>> Is anyone using Powerline HomePlugs under Linux?
>> If so, what is the secret?