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 all USB devices
SYNOPSIS
lsusb [options]
DESCRIPTION
lsusb is a utility for displaying information about all USB buses in the system and all devices connected to them.
To make use of all the features of this program, you need to have Linux kernel 2.3.15 or newer which supports the /proc/bus/usb interface.
OPTIONS
-v Tells lsusb to be verbose and display detailed information about all devices.
-vv Tells lsusb to be very verbose and display even more information (actually everything the PCI device is able to tell).
-s [[<bus>]:][<devnum>]]
Show only devices in specified bus and devnum.
-d [<vendor>]:[<product>]
Show only devices with specified vendor and product ID. Both ID's are given in hexadecimal and may be omitted.
-p <procpath>
Use another path instead of /proc/bus/usb.
-D <device>
Do not scan the /proc/bus/usb directory, instead display only information if the device whose device file is given.
-t Tells lsusb to dump the physical USB device hierarchy as a tree.
FILES
/usr/share/hwdata/usb.ids
A list of all known USB ID's (vendors, products, classes, subclasses and protocols).
/proc/bus/usb
An interface to USB devices provided by the post-2.3.15 Linux kernels. Contains per-bus subdirectories with per-device files and a
devices file containing a list of all USB devices.
SEE ALSO
lspci(8)
AUTHOR
Thomas Sailer, <sailer@ife.ee.ethz.ch>.
usbutils-0.2 14 September 1999 lsusb(8)