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Operating Systems Linux SuSE ubuntu to pure debian Post 302194073 by era on Monday 12th of May 2008 07:19:11 AM
Old 05-12-2008
The specifics of how to identify your wlan depends on which bus it's attached to. For an on-board WLAN card that would be PCI, or perhaps USB these days I guess. So get the lspci / lsusb (and lspci -v -v / lsusb -v -v) output and correlate that with the output from lsmod and you should be on your way. The startup messages in dmesg are also helpful although often somewhat cryptic; although certainly not more so than the lsmod driver names.

As for "bare-bones CLI-only" Linux, I am quite comfortable with Ubuntu as a front-end for the command line (and very little beyond the command line -- Emacs, and my browser, and my music player, and occasionally the photo viewer). If you really wanna go hardcore I guess you will be looking at Gentoo soon enough, though (-:

Last edited by era; 05-12-2008 at 08:22 AM.. Reason: lspci or lsusb
 

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lsusb(8)							Linux USB Utilities							  lsusb(8)

NAME
lsusb - list USB devices SYNOPSIS
lsusb [ options ] DESCRIPTION
lsusb is a utility for displaying information about USB buses in the system and the devices connected to them. OPTIONS
-v, --verbose Tells lsusb to be verbose and display detailed information about the devices shown. This includes configuration descriptors for the device's current speed. Class descriptors will be shown, when available, for USB device classes including hub, audio, HID, communi- cations, and chipcard. -s [[bus]:][devnum] Show only devices in specified bus and/or devnum. Both ID's are given in decimal and may be omitted. -d [vendor]:[product] Show only devices with the specified vendor and product ID. Both ID's are given in hexadecimal. -D device Do not scan the /dev/bus/usb directory, instead display only information about the device whose device file is given. The device file should be something like /dev/bus/usb/001/001. This option displays detailed information like the v option; you must be root to do this. -t Tells lsusb to dump the physical USB device hierarchy as a tree. This overrides the v option. -V, --version Print version information on standard output, then exit successfully. RETURN VALUE
If the specified device is not found, a non-zero exit code is returned. FILES
/usr/share/hwdata/usb.ids A list of all known USB ID's (vendors, products, classes, subclasses and protocols). SEE ALSO
lspci(8), usbview(8). AUTHOR
Thomas Sailer, <sailer@ife.ee.ethz.ch>. usbutils-007 6 May 2009 lsusb(8)
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