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From: walt <w41ter@gmail.com>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Noob WiFi question (yes-or-no answer will suffice)
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 19:05:51 -0700
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My ISP just forced me to upgrade to a new fiberoptic plan with very
little advance notice.
I can't complain too much because my download speed is three times
faster than yesterday, but now I need to use a USB WiFi adapter if
I want to use my main desktop machine anywhere other than my kitchen.
(Don't ask -- the details are too stupid to post -- but I'm now using
a wired ethernet connection from my kitchen :)
The Cable Guy from my ISP gave me (for free) a D-Link USB WiFi adapter:
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 07d1:3c0a D-Link System DWA-140 RangeBooster N Adapter(rev.B2) [Ralink RT3072]
I did some googling and enabled the "appropriate" kernel drivers, then
rebooted and now the output from ifconfig includes this interface:
wlan0: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST> 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?
If not, I'll either buy a better USB WiFi adapter or continue to
google it.
Thanks.