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.
Sigh. I don't want to know the chipset in any card I have, as they all work perfectly well with drivers in the kernel.
The question at issue was: How can you tell the chipset of a WiFi card. The reply I was given was that it is written on the card. I simply pointed out that this is not true. I have never seen a WiFi card with the chipset given on it.