[buug] wireless

Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
Wed Mar 26 19:30:02 PST 2003


Quoting myself:
> Quoting johnd (john at jjdev.com):
> 
> > Anyone  know if
> > TrueMobile 1300 Internal MiniPCI Cards
                                 ^^^
> > work under linux?
> 
> The key to answering such questions is to find out the _chipset_.  You
> didn't post this, presumably because you didn't have the information.
> If you have the card in your physical possession, you can find out the
> chipset using "cardctl ident".
                 ^^^^^^^

That utility would of course be useful only with PCMCIA cards.  For PCI
ones, the equivalent is lspci.

But you could alternatively just yank the card out for a moment and look
at what's written on the card's largest chip.

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