Da Rock wrote:
Useful no doubt, but no answer to the question that was actually raised, which was how one could find the chipset in a WiFi device.
Try looking at the wifi(wireless) card. I mean take it in your hand and look at it. Do you notice anything?
I have two PCMCIA WiFi cards in my hand. One is named "Orinoco Gold" and the other "Vivanco WLAN PCC 54". I notice two things about them:
Neither has any mention of the chipset it contains
Neither has any obvious way of seeing what is in the card,
short of destroying it.
What did you think I would notice, as a matter of interest?
- You should see a version or product number (may be in small print, so
put on your glasses and look). 2. You should see a serial number.
Sigh. I do see the product number on the card (not the firmware version, since I have upgraded this). I do see the serial number.
I DO NOT SEE THE CHIPSET.
Well then, thats what you should look up. Between that and what you get from the dmesg and other utilities mentioned throughout this thread by others you should determine the chipset.
Look, you said I would see the chipset on the card. I DON'T SEE THE CHIPSET ON THE CARD. I've NEVER seen the chipset on any WiFi card.
Thats the point of this discussion. YOU need to find the info, the helpers can only guide you where to look.
I don't need to find any info. I know everything I want to know about all the WiFi devices I have. I don't want to know their chipsets.
SOMEONE ELSE asked how you could find the chipset. Various people, including you, gave answers to this. I simply pointed out that your answer - that the chipset is given on the card - is utter nonsense.
The way you're responding is not conducive to others helping you here.
I'm not looking for help from anyone - certainly not you - on this issue. All the WiFi devices I use (half-a-dozen or so) work with kernel drivers, or in one case (a USB device) with a driver I compile.