Re: Wireless (again)

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> As I recall, somebody suggested the OP should look at "the HCL"
> to determine the chipset in WiFi devices
HCL - Hardware Compatibility List

You can get information on this at:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/HCL?highlight=%28HCL%29

Just follow the links once you get to the page.  As stated on the
page, since deveopment is progressing so rapidly, HCL's are almost
meaningless.

> The actual chip set numbers?
lspci works well to get information from your system.  Also viewing dmesg.

To run lspci, you probably need to be root, so either:
su -    or    sudo su -
whichever works for you.  Once as root, try:
#lspci -vv

The # saying you are at a prompt as root.
the command  lspci
the parameter is (minus sign and two letter V's, not a W)  just do a
$man lspci
to get the details

There is will a lot of content, so you may want to run lspci by itself
to see what is there.


$dmesg | less
provides a LOT of information about your system.  Once you know what
your wireless card is, such as something by broadcom - you can further
specify queries such as:
dmesg | grep -i bcm
which means send the contents of dmesg to grep and only show the lines
that contain the character sequence bcm in any case (upper case or
lower case).

Good Luck!


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