Missing wireless card?

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timeofmind
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Missing wireless card?

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"lshw -C network" should show me information about all my network devices, including the driver each one requires.

For example, see topic: http://fit-pc2.com/forum/viewtopic.php? ... hilit=lshw

The user in this example found his wireless card by the above command and then located the driver name for his card which was: rt3090sta

The output of this command on my fit-PC2i machine does not show information for any such wireless card. These are the only two network devices shown:

*-pci:0
description: PCI bridge
product: System Controller Hub (SCH Poulsbo) PCI Express Port 1
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1c
bus info: pci@0000:00:1c.0
version: 07
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pci pciexpress pm bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=pcieport-driver
resources: irq:17 ioport:2000(size=4096) memory:d0100000-d01fffff memory:d0500000-d05fffff(prefetchable)
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 02
serial: 00:01:c0:07:61:c6
size: 10MB/s
capacity: 1GB/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=half latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=MII speed=10MB/s
resources: irq:16 ioport:2000(size=256) memory:d0100000-d0100fff memory:d0500000-d050ffff(prefetchable) memory:d0520000-d053ffff(prefetchable)
*-pci:1
description: PCI bridge
product: System Controller Hub (SCH Poulsbo) PCI Express Port 2
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1c.1
bus info: pci@0000:00:1c.1
version: 07
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pci pciexpress pm bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=pcieport-driver
resources: irq:16 ioport:3000(size=4096) memory:d0200000-d02fffff memory:d0600000-d06fffff(prefetchable)
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
logical name: eth1
version: 02
serial: 00:01:c0:07:61:c7
size: 10MB/s
capacity: 1GB/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=half latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=MII speed=10MB/s
resources: irq:17 ioport:3000(size=256) memory:d0200000-d0200fff memory:d0600000-d060ffff(prefetchable) memory:d0620000-d063ffff(prefetchable)


*Note: drivers are only shown if the device has been claimed by a loaded module; otherwise, device is listed as UNCLAIMED.

timeofmind
Posts: 16
Joined: Tue May 11, 2010 10:45 pm

Re: Missing wireless card?

Post by timeofmind »

The wireless card was shown by lshw once the RT2870STA module was loaded. It now operates without issue.

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