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 428B113838B for ; Fri, 3 Oct 2014 02:06:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 01B44E089E; Fri, 3 Oct 2014 02:06:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CC9BEE087C for ; Fri, 3 Oct 2014 02:06:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE8D53403D3 for ; Fri, 3 Oct 2014 02:06:16 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -2.7 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.7 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-1, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Ggri7XjvA0Nk for ; Fri, 3 Oct 2014 02:06:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 005E5340369 for ; Fri, 3 Oct 2014 02:06:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XZsFx-0003Nc-Bi for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Fri, 03 Oct 2014 04:06:05 +0200 Received: from 108-77-76-244.lightspeed.irvnca.sbcglobal.net ([108.77.76.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 03 Oct 2014 04:06:05 +0200 Received: from w41ter by 108-77-76-244.lightspeed.irvnca.sbcglobal.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 03 Oct 2014 04:06:05 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Noob WiFi question (yes-or-no answer will suffice) Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 19:05:51 -0700 Message-ID: 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 108-77-76-244.lightspeed.irvnca.sbcglobal.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.1.1 X-Archives-Salt: 2f3ef343-99a2-4b0c-b128-1d2a5553c2d8 X-Archives-Hash: d5520d9771d03601dcc12f1ae0aa9c0b 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 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.