Historically wireless has been a weakness of Linux, mostly because the hardware producers don't see the point in sharing their info with the Linux driver developers. That leaves them in a position where they have to reverse engineer drivers or write wrapper scripts and use Windows drivers. Ethernet networking has been a strength, with the Linux networking stack historically being so much stronger than the Windows one that Microsoft actually stole it ... and they have the f'ing hide to accuse Linux of violating their patents.
Anyway, enter this command into a terminal.
Code:
lspci > lspci-output.txt
This will send the output of the lspci command to a text file in your current working directory (your home directory if you opened a fresh terminal to do it) so you can open it up with a graphical text editor and copy etc more easily. Copy and paste the contents up here. It will list off every device attached to the PCI bus, both internally (like USB controllers) and externally (like your wifi card). That way we can see what devices the OS is seeing.
Originally Posted by D_A
Historically wireless has been a weakness of Linux, mostly because the hardware producers don't see the point in sharing their info with the Linux driver developers. That leaves them in a position where they have to reverse engineer drivers or write wrapper scripts and use Windows drivers. Ethernet networking has been a strength, with the Linux networking stack historically being so much stronger than the Windows one that Microsoft actually stole it ... and they have the f'ing hide to accuse Linux of violating their patents.
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