From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E82F113838B for ; Fri, 3 Oct 2014 02:25:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BFC15E08C0; Fri, 3 Oct 2014 02:24:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out5-smtp.messagingengine.com (out5-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.29]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9F956E089D for ; Fri, 3 Oct 2014 02:24:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute3.internal (compute3.nyi.internal [10.202.2.43]) by gateway2.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE09E20B8C for ; Thu, 2 Oct 2014 22:24:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend2 ([10.202.2.161]) by compute3.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 02 Oct 2014 22:24:52 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=x-sasl-enc:message-id:date:from :mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=smtpout; bh=6rJfhWEQxlFc2jN31LHDXK VlaKg=; b=mMdkWyqcPmJaNDzkGd/30WlbQiPcGyVKmAzcprM8APtgzDpMFz0qCk KijAlNjHVkOP8PYDFSQvYTkPoRkIUkwHTYuG2/Z4eRteA8B4BL6c5CpX8Zxrpbjn OS8AHT8OtCb2ZQq/q18Cv7rytbvW/5YsxTTJzs+M+fzDhTZ08t1rI= X-Sasl-enc: VH5bfgutmn1aNt12LcaCkDRO+V/YeSwDtYJIcmEy+D41 1412303091 Received: from [35.2.81.196] (unknown [35.2.81.196]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id B58046800C0 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 2014 22:24:51 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <542E08F3.8080602@alectenharmsel.com> Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 22:24:51 -0400 From: Alec Ten Harmsel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.1.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Noob WiFi question (yes-or-no answer will suffice) References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 78f851fa-ebd7-4b41-910c-8e02fee5c9ff X-Archives-Hash: 878c60741b714df3aa760c4aa5839f18 On 10/02/2014 10:05 PM, walt wrote: > I did some googling and enabled the "appropriate" kernel drivers, then > rebooted and now the output from ifconfig includes this interface: > > wlan0: flags=4099 mtu 1500 > ether b8:a3:86:99:a8:d8 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) > RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) > RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 > TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) > TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 > > My yes-or-no question: does the appearance of "wlan0" imply that > my new kernel drivers are the right ones for this particular D-Link > WiFi adapter? It's certainly a great sign, but it may or may not be enough. I'm by no means an expert, but I believe I have to install some extra firmware (b43-firmware) to use on my laptop as it's not in the kernel (unless I'm clueless with kernel config). Without b43-firmware, the interface shows up and is recognized, but can't be used iirc. > If not, I'll either buy a better USB WiFi adapter or continue to > google it. > > Thanks. > > If you buy a new one, go with a PCI card. PCI is a much better bus than USB - more power so the chipset does the majority of the processing instead of the typical USB designs that offload a bunch of it to your CPU. Also, if you buy a new one, I've had fantastic experiences with Intel chipsets. Alec