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  Date: Dec 10    Category: Unix / Linux / Ubuntu    Views: 425
  

I am trying to get my wireless card working. The card has been in the
machine a long time but has not been in use in about a year. It is a
Linksys card But I have no numbers as to make and model. My ubuntu
8.04 64 bit system can't seem to see it. I don't believe I have the
correct driver on board. I have been to the Ubuntu 8.04 help page and
spent a great deal of yesterday trying to work my way through this.
Without a card number I can't pick a driver to install. Is there a way
to get the card number without taking the card out and actually reading
the numbers or a way to pick a driver??

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8 Answers Found

 
Answer #1    Answered On: Dec 10    

From a terminal type:
lspci -v

or to go up down list with arrow keys:

lspci -v |less

 
Answer #2    Answered On: Dec 10    

doug@doug-desktop:~$ lspci -v
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890CE Host Bridge
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890CE Host Bridge
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64
Memory at c8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890CE Host Bridge
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 8297
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890CE Host Bridge
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 8297
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890CE Host Bridge
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 8297
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890CE Host Bridge
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 8297
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

00:00.5 PIC: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890CE I/O APIC Interrupt
Controller (prog-if 20 [IO(X)-APIC])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 8297
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0

00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890CE Host Bridge
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI bridge
[K8T800/K8T890 South] (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
Memory behind bridge: fa000000-fbdfffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: d0000000-dfffffff
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:02.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T890 PCI to PCI Bridge
Controller (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=0
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:03.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T890 PCI to PCI Bridge
Controller (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=03, subordinate=03, sec-latency=0
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Unknown device 5372
(prog-if 8f [Master SecP SecO PriP PriO])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 827c
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5
I/O ports at dc00 [size=8]
I/O ports at d880 [size=4]
I/O ports at d800 [size=8]
I/O ports at d480 [size=4]
I/O ports at d400 [size=16]
I/O ports at d000 [size=256]
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 07)
(prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 827c
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
[virtual] Memory at 000001f0 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled]
[size=8]
[virtual] Memory at 000003f0 (type 3, non-prefetchable) [disabled]
[size=1]
[virtual] Memory at 00000170 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled]
[size=8]
[virtual] Memory at 00000370 (type 3, non-prefetchable) [disabled]
[size=1]
I/O ports at fc00 [size=16]
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
Controller (rev b0) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 827c
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
I/O ports at c480 [size=32]
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
Controller (rev b0) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 827c
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5
I/O ports at c800 [size=32]
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
Controller (rev b0) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 827c
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 3
I/O ports at c880 [size=32]
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
Controller (rev b0) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 827c
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
I/O ports at cc00 [size=32]
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 90) (prog-if
20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 827c
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 3
Memory at f9fffc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237S PCI to ISA Bridge
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 827c
Flags: medium devsel
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:11.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8251 Ultra VLINK Controller
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. Unknown device 337e
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 128
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II]
(rev 7c)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 80ed
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
I/O ports at c000 [size=256]
Memory at f9fff800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:13.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A Host Bridge (prog-if
00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=20, subordinate=20, sec-latency=0
Memory behind bridge: fbf00000-fbffffff
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:13.1 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A PCI to PCI Bridge
(prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=04, subordinate=04, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 0000e000-0000efff
Memory behind bridge: fbe00000-fbefffff
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
HyperTransport Technology Configuration
Flags: fast devsel
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
Address Map
Flags: fast devsel

00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
DRAM Controller
Flags: fast devsel

00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
Miscellaneous Control
Flags: fast devsel
Capabilities: <access denied>

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890
[Chrome9] Integrated Video (rev 11) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 8297
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Memory at fa000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Expansion ROM at fbdf0000 [disabled] [size=64K]
Capabilities: <access denied>

04:06.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB12LV26 IEEE-1394
Controller (Link) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: VISIONTEK Unknown device 0401
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
Memory at fbeff800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
Memory at fbef8000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>

04:07.0 Ethernet controller: Belkin Unknown device 700f (rev 20)
Subsystem: Belkin Unknown device 700f
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5
I/O ports at e800 [size=256]
Memory at fbeff400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
Capabilities: <access denied>

20:01.0 Audio device: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA High Definition Audio
Controller (rev 10)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 8290
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 5
Memory at fbffc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>

doug@doug-desktop:~$

 
Answer #3    Answered On: Dec 10    

The Belkin device # 700f, may be a RTL8185 chipset.

 
Answer #4    Answered On: Dec 10    

A Google search of, Belkin 700f, turns up several potentially useful message
threads. In particular, if you use the 64-bit version of Ubuntu, this one might
be of interest:

www.linuxquestions.org/.../belkin-rtl8185l-chipset-pci-wi\
fi-install-540070/

As well, it is probably worth visiting Belkin's site.

 
Answer #5    Answered On: Dec 10    

I am Using a Linksys card which I think is actually Cisco. Not
tonight but likely in the morning I will remove the card and get the
numbers off of it . With that I should be able to match it up with a
driver. I hope.

 
Answer #6    Answered On: Dec 10    

The usual procedure is to go to System, Administration, Hardware Drivers. It
will tell you if there is a proprietary driver available and will install it
if that is your choice. Afterwards you need to set up your network and
connect.

If it shows in Hardware drivers, but is 'inactive' then you need to install
the driver. If no driver shows, then you may have to use ndiswrapper and use
a Windows driver or search for a Linux one.

This is the GUI approach and works for most wireless cards.

 
Answer #7    Answered On: Dec 10    

I have used 'Everst Home Edition' in the past for problems that you describe, it
is free and stable. Google it and download if you still have windows running, it
almost always finds at least a starting point...

'Belarc Advisor' does a similar job and also is free...

 
Answer #8    Answered On: Dec 10    

Both of those programs are Windows programs.

 
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