[wellylug] local Ubuntu tech support/hardware help

tink andrej at paradise.net.nz
Wed Mar 25 15:31:47 NZDT 2009


2009/3/25 Jethro Carr <jethro.carr at jethrocarr.com>:
> On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 11:26 +1300, John Barstow wrote:
>> Generally speaking, we need to figure out what chipset your machine
>> uses - Acer has a bad habit of changing this during a model's
>> lifetime. A lot of their laptops use Atheros chips, which require one
>> of 3(!) different drivers depending on the exact version used.
>> Searching for "madwifi" or "ath_pci" will turn up lots of detailed
>> information.
>
> Best thing to do with any wifi problem is (like John says) to figure out
> what the chipset is.
>
> If you run:
> /sbin/lspci
>
> It will revel the card/chipset so we can track down what support there
> is for it.
It won't revel :)

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/revel

It will reveal ...

;)



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