On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 16:34 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > Timothy Murphy wrote: > > > I was however interested from a purely academic point of view > > to know if it is possible to determine the chipset > > either from documentation or by use of some application. > > First, I have a PC card labeled "Orinoco Wireless Networks - Gold". It is > made by Agere Systems. Has a nice product number on it of PC24E-H-FC. The > label also has a serial number, a part number, a MAC address, a few other > FCC and other agency's registration numbers. > > I don't have a laptop running any incantation of Linux. So, I can't tell > you if the output of "lspci -vv" would reveal any clue as to the type of > chipset it contains. A scanning electron microscope may come in handy about > now.... > > Or, try going to http://linux-wless.passys.nl/ and search there to see if > your card is listed. I found mine...PC24E-H-FC. But, it is a good thing I > used google to get to that web site as I didn't know that Agere was acquired > by Lucent. ---- years ago - and the orinoco's generally just work and have worked on Linux just about forever (with some limitations on promiscuous modes for sniffing). Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
