h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I did fix myself up with a WLAN at home - once the thought got hold I rapidly got to the point where I couldn't live without it. So yesterday I bought a little Netgear wireless router and proceeded with the adventure of getting the wireless connection working on my laptop running Gentoo Linux.

I spent most of yesterday evening recompiling the kernel to enable support for the WLAN card, loaded (what I thought was) the right module, proceeded to start the card and configure it - and the my regular NIC stopped working. The WLAN driver ate it. *Major* weirdness. So after reinstalling the NIC module, I gave up for the day.

Today I came home, reconfigured the kernel once more, looked up the WLAN card properly and selected the (actually) right module this time, loaded it, started the card, and spent the last 4 hours trying to get it to connect to the access point. Because the card defaulted to channel 3 (like most cards in Europe and NA), but the router, in it's default configuration, chose to be channel 11. The fact that I didn't check the channels until after four hours of trying everything else I'll just write off to work-related stress

The point, however, is this: It's working now - and I can finally h2g2 from the sofa

I didn't understand much of what you said but the last sentence makes good sense to me.

It's all about the end result, really

Traveller in Time not entirely in agreement
"Most times when you have 'problems' getting something to work on Linux you learn lots about it.

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Exactly.

For h2g2ing from the sofa (in case I'll have one) I just have a loooong cable for my laptop.

, you're absolutely right. Learning is a huge part of the end result - that's why I love gentoo.

And we *so* need a smiley!

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