Re: [gentoo-user] Noob WiFi question (yes-or-no answer will suffice)

2014-10-04 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 10:24:51PM -0400, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > > 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Noob WiFi question (yes-or-no answer will suffice)

2014-10-02 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday, October 02, 2014 07:05:51 PM walt wrote: > 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Noob WiFi question (yes-or-no answer will suffice)

2014-10-02 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday, October 02, 2014 10:24:51 PM Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > 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 > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Noob WiFi question (yes-or-no answer will suffice)

2014-10-02 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
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 b

[gentoo-user] Noob WiFi question (yes-or-no answer will suffice)

2014-10-02 Thread walt
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. (D