I bought a tri-band MSI AXE5400 wifi dongle from Amazon, as it may improve the wifi speed over my built-in wifi in this older computer (Dell Vostro 3470). i can see the device in lsusb. The MSI website for the device has a driver and I downloaded it for linux, unzipped, and set permission on the install.sh script, then ran it, but the make had some errors and it would not install (I sent a support message to MSI about this, since they claim this should easily install for linux with the install script). First, do I need their driver anyway? Is there already a driver in the linux kernel? Second, if not am I screwed since their driver download is not functional? Third, if there is a driver, how can one configure it to be seen in the networking along side or in place of the built in wifi? Techie help appreciated. I guess its not a crisis since the computer has wifi but it is only 40 Mbsp down/20 Mbps up, and I regularly get 5x that on my other computers sitting 3 feet away. I do have a 50 ft Ethernet cable I use sometime, since there is no way for me to get a connection any closerāmy wife hate the cable strung accross the roomā¦
Right now, the MSI is in a usb 2.0. There are some 3.0 usb on the back of the machine. Overall, may not even be an advantage, since I see the built in speed looks higher anywayā¦
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System:
Kernel: 6.9.8-zen1-1-zen arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.1.1
clocksource: tsc avail: acpi_pm
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux-zen
root=UUID=81ac1306-4541-49aa-af26-ac3ff8f68f92 rw rootflags=subvol=@
quiet rd.luks.uuid=ad3e452f-ed27-44f8-ba88-442176feab7d
rd.luks.uuid=defbb9a9-7b34-47be-b30e-abd2dc691b0a
resume=/dev/mapper/luks-defbb9a9-7b34-47be-b30e-abd2dc691b0a loglevel=3
ibt=off
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.1.3 tk: Qt v: N/A info: frameworks v: 6.4.0
wm: kwin_wayland vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Garuda base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: Dell product: Vostro 3470 v: N/A
serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 3 serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Dell model: 0Y5FXV v: A00 serial: <superuser required> part-nu: 0869
uuid: <superuser required> UEFI: Dell v: 2.13.0 date: 05/29/2019
Battery:
Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech K850 Performance Wireless Keyboard
serial: <filter> charge: 100% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes
status: discharging
Device-2: hidpp_battery_1 model: Logitech M720 Triathlon Multi-Device
Mouse serial: <filter> charge: 55% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes
status: discharging
CPU:
Info: model: Intel Core i5-9400 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Coffee Lake
gen: core 9 level: v3 note: check built: 2018 process: Intel 14nm family: 6
model-id: 0x9E (158) stepping: 0xD (13) microcode: 0xFC
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 6 smt: <unsupported> cache: L1: 384 KiB
desc: d-6x32 KiB; i-6x32 KiB L2: 1.5 MiB desc: 6x256 KiB L3: 9 MiB
desc: 1x9 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 800 min/max: 800/4100 scaling: driver: intel_pstate
governor: powersave cores: 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800 5: 800 6: 800
bogomips: 34798
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Vulnerabilities: <filter>
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel CoffeeLake-S GT2 [UHD Graphics 630] vendor: Dell
driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-9.5 process: Intel 14nm built: 2016-20
ports: active: none empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0
chip-ID: 8086:3e98 class-ID: 0380
Device-2: AMD Lexa PRO [Radeon 540/540X/550/550X / RX 540X/550/550X]
vendor: Dell driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: GCN-4 code: Arctic Islands
process: GF 14nm built: 2016-20 pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 8 ports:
active: DP-4 empty: DP-2,DP-3 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:699f
class-ID: 0300 temp: 55.0 C
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.13 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.1
compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: amdgpu,modesetting
alternate: fbdev,intel,vesa dri: radeonsi,iris gpu: i915,amdgpu
display-ID: 0
Monitor-1: DP-4 res: 1920x1080 size: N/A modes: N/A
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: intel iris drv: amd radeonsi platforms: device: 0
drv: iris device: 1 drv: radeonsi device: 2 drv: swrast gbm: drv: iris
surfaceless: drv: iris wayland: drv: radeonsi x11: drv: radeonsi
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: amd mesa v: 24.1.5-arch1.1
glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: AMD Radeon RX 550 / 550 Series
(radeonsi polaris12 LLVM 18.1.8 DRM 3.57 6.9.8-zen1-1-zen)
device-ID: 1002:699f memory: 3.91 GiB unified: no display-ID: :1.0
API: Vulkan v: 1.3.279 layers: 14 device: 0 type: discrete-gpu name: AMD
Radeon RX 550 / 550 Series (RADV POLARIS12) driver: mesa radv
v: 24.1.5-arch1.1 device-ID: 1002:699f surfaces: xcb,xlib,wayland
device: 1 type: integrated-gpu name: Intel UHD Graphics 630 (CFL GT2)
driver: mesa intel v: 24.1.5-arch1.1 device-ID: 8086:3e98
surfaces: xcb,xlib,wayland device: 2 type: cpu name: llvmpipe (LLVM
18.1.8 256 bits) driver: mesa llvmpipe v: 24.1.5-arch1.1 (LLVM 18.1.8)
device-ID: 10005:0000 surfaces: xcb,xlib,wayland
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS vendor: Dell Vostro 3470
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_skl, snd_soc_avs,
snd_sof_pci_intel_cnl bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a348 class-ID: 0403
Device-2: AMD Baffin HDMI/DP Audio [Radeon RX 550 640SP / 560/560X]
vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s
lanes: 8 bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:aae0 class-ID: 0403
API: ALSA v: k6.9.8-zen1-1-zen status: kernel-api with: aoss
type: oss-emulator tools: N/A
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.2.2 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
4: pw-jack type: plugin tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Dell Vostro 3470 driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1
speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: 3000 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168
class-ID: 0200
IF: enp2s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9565 / AR9565 Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: Dell Vostro 3470 driver: ath9k v: kernel pcie: gen: 1
speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 168c:0036 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp3s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Device-3: Micro Star 802.11ax WLAN Adapter driver: N/A type: USB rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 1-7:9 chip-ID: 0db0:991d
class-ID: 0000 serial: <filter>
Info: services: NetworkManager, systemd-timesyncd, wpa_supplicant
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 1.1
speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 1-14:6 chip-ID: 0cf3:e005
class-ID: e001
Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 4.0
lmp-v: 6 status: discoverable: no pairing: no class-ID: 6c0104
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 3.87 TiB used: 2.94 TiB (76.1%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Hitachi model: HUS724040ALE640
size: 3.64 TiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
tech: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter> fw-rev: NS04 scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: SK Hynix model: SC401 SATA 256GB
size: 238.47 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: 0121 scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 221.18 GiB size: 221.18 GiB (100.00%)
used: 177.95 GiB (80.5%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 254:0
mapped: luks-ad3e452f-ed27-44f8-ba88-442176feab7d
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
used: 728 KiB (0.2%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sdb1 maj-min: 8:17
ID-3: /home raw-size: 221.18 GiB size: 221.18 GiB (100.00%)
used: 177.95 GiB (80.5%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 254:0
mapped: luks-ad3e452f-ed27-44f8-ba88-442176feab7d
ID-4: /var/log raw-size: 221.18 GiB size: 221.18 GiB (100.00%)
used: 177.95 GiB (80.5%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 254:0
mapped: luks-ad3e452f-ed27-44f8-ba88-442176feab7d
ID-5: /var/tmp raw-size: 221.18 GiB size: 221.18 GiB (100.00%)
used: 177.95 GiB (80.5%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 254:0
mapped: luks-ad3e452f-ed27-44f8-ba88-442176feab7d
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 133 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) zswap: no
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 16.99 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
priority: -2 dev: /dev/dm-1 maj-min: 254:1
mapped: luks-defbb9a9-7b34-47be-b30e-abd2dc691b0a
ID-2: swap-2 type: zram size: 15.45 GiB used: 1.07 GiB (6.9%)
priority: 100 comp: zstd avail: lzo,lzo-rle,lz4,lz4hc,842 max-streams: 6
dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 37.0 C pch: 47.0 C mobo: 36.0 C gpu: amdgpu
temp: 55.0 C
Fan Speeds (rpm): fan-1: 1027 gpu: amdgpu fan: 1235
Info:
Memory: total: 16 GiB available: 15.45 GiB used: 4.31 GiB (27.9%)
Processes: 309 Power: uptime: 3h 29m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: deep
avail: s2idle wakeups: 0 hibernate: platform avail: shutdown, reboot,
suspend, test_resume image: 6.14 GiB services: org_kde_powerdevil,
power-profiles-daemon, upowerd Init: systemd v: 256 default: graphical
tool: systemctl
Packages: 2081 pm: dpkg pkgs: 0 pm: pacman pkgs: 2075 libs: 593
tools: octopi,paru,yay pm: flatpak pkgs: 6 Compilers: clang: 18.1.8
gcc: 14.2.1 alt: 12 Shell: garuda-inxi default: fish v: 3.7.1
running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.35
Garuda (2.6.26-1):
System install date: 2024-06-11
Last full system update: 2024-08-06 ā»
Is partially upgraded: No
Relevant software: snapper NetworkManager dracut nvidia-dkms
Windows dual boot: Probably (Run as root to verify)
Failed units: