#linuxmintodyssey

[weaverlegaspi]

WiFi on Linux Mint 18

Okay, it’s now taken weeks, but, to put it out there on the internet (because all I could find was a lot of blah blah blah here and there with no real answers when I looked)

Atheros AR9271 is the Chipset that seems to work with the most Linux Distros, and so far it seems to be working very very well (knock on wood) with my LinuxMint.

I think that they’re in Alfa adapters, and I personally got mine from ThinkPenguin (w/ a mondo antenna too ‘cause I get thouroughly crappy reception otherwise)

[weaverlegaspi]

Linux Mint Connections

Yeah, a little rocky on the WiFi. 

It looks like the best WiFi adapter chipset to have is AR9170. Unfortunately I do believe that my current adapter (A Rosewill) has a RealTek 8188 or something along those lines. 

Which, it does work, but I literally have to unplug it and plug it every time for it to see any of the wireless networks anywhere. Sort of a pain.

So, I’m debating whether to get a new one with an AR9170 chipset in it or not. I don’t know, maybe I’ll try ThinkPenguin.

[weaverlegaspi]

Linux Mint 18 is On

There have been some hiccups, like I can’t get my Calibre and ADE to play right. So, we’re working on that. 

Ooh, and I have pictures, but the whole kit and kaboodle will be posted more about on Tuesday or so, when there isn’t a really important Patriots game in two hours and I have to get ready for tomorrow at work.

On the whole I really like it though.

I have to get my backups onto the SSD, and I’m already worried that the 500 GB SSD isn’t going to be big enough (I’m probably wrong, but, oy... :)) So far so good. Chrome is on there, Calibre, we’ll see if Banshee will work with my iPod. So far... so good.

[weaverlegaspi]

I can’t decide if I want to do my odyssey into Linux Mint 18 ‘Sarah’ here on @patredbru or make a new tumblr for all that stuff? Hmm... maybe I’ll just do a tag for it. Hmm...

(So far it hasn’t started all that well, with the iso I was trying to download only getting to 1.1 GB instead of 1.6 GB, although it may have been my internet connections fault).