2008/5/28 Olusola Fadero <olusola.fadero@xxxxxxxxx>:
> What wireless card do you have in your laptop?
>
> Olusola
>>
>>
He says he is a total noob, maybe *some* hand holding is in order (
just a kick start)
You are responsible for any disaster that may occur if you follow my
advice, having said that I have done this myself and not suffered any
ill effects, i am just saying we are responsible for our own systems ,
so ...
Open a terminal window. type: su -
enter the root password when prompted.
Now you are root ( exercise caution when logged in as root, commands
run as root can have serious repercussions)
Run the command : lspci -v You will get a bunch of hardware
information. The only thing that concerns you at the moment is
obviously the wireless network card, it should be fairly obvious which
one is the wireless card. Something like this might appear in your
output :
00:0b.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2500 802.11g Cardbus/mini-PCI (rev 01)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Unknown 802.11g
mini-PCI Adapter
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 22
Memory at dfff8000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Kernel driver in use: rt2500pci
Kernel modules: rt2500pci
Copy this info to a text file on the desktop or try running this in a
terminal instead : lspci -v > /home/<insert your_username_
here>/Desktop/lspci.txt (note: everything between the <> including the
<> symbols is to be replaced by your username)
That last command will run lspci and redirect its output to a textfile
on your desktop named lspci.txt. Remember to use your username in the
above command. Spelling counts, spaces count(usually creates errors if
they are unnecessary) ,capitalization counts. It must be exact or you
will get errors. When done type : exit or just close the terminal.
The only thing interesting to this list at this point is the info
related to your wireless card. Post this info here please. You should
also google to see if your card is supported or maybe the driver is in
limbo or something.
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