| 1 |
On Thursday, October 02, 2014 10:24:51 PM Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: |
| 2 |
> On 10/02/2014 10:05 PM, walt wrote: |
| 3 |
> > I did some googling and enabled the "appropriate" kernel drivers, then |
| 4 |
> > rebooted and now the output from ifconfig includes this interface: |
| 5 |
> > |
| 6 |
> > wlan0: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 |
| 7 |
> > |
| 8 |
> > ether b8:a3:86:99:a8:d8 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) |
| 9 |
> > RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) |
| 10 |
> > RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 |
| 11 |
> > TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) |
| 12 |
> > TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 |
| 13 |
> > |
| 14 |
> > My yes-or-no question: does the appearance of "wlan0" imply that |
| 15 |
> > my new kernel drivers are the right ones for this particular D-Link |
| 16 |
> > WiFi adapter? |
| 17 |
> |
| 18 |
> It's certainly a great sign, but it may or may not be enough. I'm by no |
| 19 |
> means an expert, but I believe I have to install some extra firmware |
| 20 |
> (b43-firmware) to use on my laptop as it's not in the kernel (unless I'm |
| 21 |
> clueless with kernel config). Without b43-firmware, the interface shows |
| 22 |
> up and is recognized, but can't be used iirc. |
| 23 |
|
| 24 |
In my experience, when it shows in "ifconfig", it is loaded. |
| 25 |
You might want to check the "dmesg" output to see if it is missing firmware |
| 26 |
somewhere. |
| 27 |
Did you try "dhcpcd wlan0" to see if it gets an IP-adress? |
| 28 |
|
| 29 |
> > If not, I'll either buy a better USB WiFi adapter or continue to |
| 30 |
> > google it. |
| 31 |
> > |
| 32 |
> > Thanks. |
| 33 |
> |
| 34 |
> If you buy a new one, go with a PCI card. PCI is a much better bus than |
| 35 |
> USB - more power so the chipset does the majority of the processing |
| 36 |
> instead of the typical USB designs that offload a bunch of it to your |
| 37 |
> CPU. Also, if you buy a new one, I've had fantastic experiences with |
| 38 |
> Intel chipsets. |
| 39 |
|
| 40 |
Is this a laptop or desktop? |
| 41 |
For a laptop, check if you have any of the following slots available: |
| 42 |
- mini-PCIe |
| 43 |
- PCMCIA |
| 44 |
- (whatever that smaller pcmcia-slot is some laptops have these days) |
| 45 |
|
| 46 |
If yes, try to get a wifi-card that fits in those. Externally accessible slots |
| 47 |
are easier to use. |
| 48 |
|
| 49 |
-- |
| 50 |
Joost |
Archives