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tricky

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Registered: 2009-03-31

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[SOLVED] Do I have WIFI?

Hey,

Just need to know if there's a command I can type in the terminal to see if my Motherboard has wifi built in?.

Last edited by tricky (2009-06-19 15:00:39)

jack.mitchell

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Re: [SOLVED] Do I have WIFI?

If you do have wifi built in and it is automatically supported by the kernel, then if you type:

iwconfig

into a terminal it will say if you have any wireless devices.

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Jack

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Re: [SOLVED] Do I have WIFI?

`lspci`

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Ramses de Norre

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Re: [SOLVED] Do I have WIFI?

If you do have wifi built in and it is automatically supported by the kernel, then if you type:

iwconfig

into a terminal it will say if you have any wireless devices.

Regards,
Jack

Probably it wont return anything as you need to install drivers/firmware for most NIC's to show up. Use lspci as mentioned above to see what hardware is installed. (Paste it here if you don't know how to look for a wifi card in the output)

tricky

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Re: [SOLVED] Do I have WIFI?

Thank you Wonderful Archers!, that's exactly what I needed.

Here is output from lspci

I can't see wireless mentioned.

00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890CE Host Bridge
00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890CE Host Bridge
00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890CE Host Bridge
00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890CE Host Bridge
00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890CE Host Bridge
00:00.5 PIC: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890CE I/O APIC Interrupt Controller
00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890CE Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI bridge [K8T800/K8T890 South]
00:02.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T890 PCI to PCI Bridge Controller
00:03.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T890 PCI to PCI Bridge Controller
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10)
00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller (rev 80)
00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge [KT600/K8T800/K8T890 South]
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 9500 GT (rev a1)

Last edited by tricky (2009-06-19 14:40:21)

Ramses de Norre

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Re: [SOLVED] Do I have WIFI?

Nope, I don't see a wireless interface neither. Check your bios for a setting to disable it, if it is disabled there it doesn't show up in lspci. If there is no such setting (or it isn't enabled) you probably don't have wifi. You can buy a pcmcia card if you want to.

tricky

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Re: [SOLVED] Do I have WIFI?

Yes,
It was disabled in the Bios.
Thanks to everyone.

Peace, Tricky.