7 Dec
2012
7 Dec
'12
5:34 p.m.
On Friday 07 December 2012 16:44:40 Felmon Davis wrote:
Yes, no problem. As root.
bash: lshw: command not found
Mmm. Seems that lshw is not on my machine.
On Fri, 7 Dec 2012, Baron wrote:
Ups... Sorry my error :-( It looked/looks like a "W". Hangs head in
shame.
Running lspci with the correct switch gives a more verbose output but
basically the same as below.
On Thursday 06 December 2012 23:21:14 Felmon
Davis wrote:
that's not what I wrote but never mind, read below.
(I wrote "lspci -vv"; that's two instances of 'v'.) On Thu, 6 Dec 2012, Baron wrote:
Hi Felmon,
lspci: invalid option -'w' On Thursday 06 December 2012 22:50:34 Felmon
Davis wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Dec 2012, Baron wrote:
>> [...]
>>
>> My hardware is a SIS 660 mainboard with integrated graphics and
>> a dual core, 3Ghz P4 with 1Gb ram, so not exactly high end.
>> It doesn't see the wireless adaptor though, which is no
>> surprise, Open SuSE doesn't see it either.
>
> do you know the wifi adapter involved? sometimes one can install
> firmware which brings them alive.
>
> F.
No ! Not at least without opening the box and having a look at
the adaptor. Alexandre mentioned windows drivers and
ndiswrapper. I don't recall if there was ever a driver disc.
PS. I just had a look around the back of the machine. Sometime
in the past I've removed the antenna... Something else to look
for.
:-)
Thanks for the tips.
what does
lspci -vv
tell you?
F. However
lspci on its own :-
Watch out for wrap:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
661FX/M661FX/M661MX Host (rev 11)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS AGP Port
(virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge)
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS963 [MuTIOL
Media IO] (rev 25)
00:02.1 SMBus: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS961/2 SMBus
Controller
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE]
00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems
[SiS] AC'97 Sound Controller (rev a0)
00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1
Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1
Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0
Controller
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 90)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
661/741/760 PCI/AGP or 662/761Gx PCIE VGA Display Adapter
No mention of anything wireless.
so it looks like the driver would run on a silicon graphics chip.
I just realized the better detector is
lshw -C network
do you know how to run this as root? it may not be necessary. let's
try it and see what it yields. I'm getting the impression your chip isn't
well supported but perhaps
someone else can chip in with knowledge of it.
This machine has never run windows ! Its a "Packard Bell" that was
formatted and Linux put on from the word go. So I have no idea if the
wireless adapter even functions.
--
Best Regards:
Baron.
I've not had a chance to open up the machine
to have a look at the
card.
you don't have to.
However I have got all the bits aside ready to
build a new machine,
its just having the time to put it all together then this one can
be re-purposed.
Thanks for your help.
not sure how far I can help but maybe a step or so on.
F.