[SOLVED] Get Drivername

[quaid123]

Hello!

I am about to setup my WLAN which sadly isn' that easy. I have followed some instructions which use the wpa_supplicant for the WPA setup and router connecting.

In this example the tutor uses a -Dmadwifi flag. Well, I am sure this works for many users, but obviously that madwifi is not MY wlan driver. So, actually my quite simple question: how can I find out my driver's name?

btw: wlan works, I succesfully connected to a non wpa/unsecure wlan router (I can't use it for surfing though...)

Trying -Dwext made the wpa_supplicant at least try to connect but without success. Well, maybe that isn't my driver either? Grepping for wext in /etc or dmesg to see if it actually IS didn't show me anything.

Also, I do not have hwinfo installed which is said to yield drivernames. Certainly, I cannot install it without internet access. So what can I do?


Best regards,
Christian

[Leppie]

you can check your wireless card with this command:

lshw -c network

you should be able to check the driver with this command:

lsmod | grep 80211

[reed9]

I believe that should be a capital C as so

lshw -C network

lshw(1): hardware - Linux man page

Though I could be wrong as I don't use it.

Not all distros have that program available by default (though Ubuntu does and it's handy). More generically, you can do

lspci -vnn

And look for the wireless network adapter in the output. That will also give the driver module in use.

For example, my laptop's wireless card looks like this

04:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection [8086:4222] (rev 02)
	Subsystem: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection [8086:1000]
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 30
	Memory at f1000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: iwl3945
	Kernel modules: iwl3945

[quaid123]

That helped, thank you!