[sf-lug] wifi for CentOS thinkpad

[Jim Stockford]

Many thanks. My experience:

$ who am i
jim
$ lspci
Command not found
$ : # <bad_word>
$ PATH=$PATH:/sbin:/usr/sbin
$ lspci
.......it works.........nothing useful.....
$ lsmod
.......it works........nothing useful.....
$ dmesg | tail -60
......there's the ipw2200 stuff.....failed.....


On 6/22/06, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:
>
> Quoting John Lowry (johnlowry at gmail.com):
>
> > Two things that I can think of offhand to figure it out. Both of these
> > need to done as root, I think.
>
> Happily, no.
>
>   $ whoami
>   rick
>   $ lsmod
>   Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
>   e100                   50036   1
>   uhci                   25724   0 (unused)
>   usbcore                62892   1 [uhci]
>   ext2                   49548   4 (autoclean)
>   rtc                     6440   0 (autoclean)
>   ext3                   81068   4 (autoclean)
>   jbd                    42468   4 (autoclean) [ext3]
>   sd_mod                 11756  20 (autoclean)
>   sym53c8xx_2            69664  10 (autoclean)
>   scsi_mod               95140   2 (autoclean) [sd_mod sym53c8xx_2]
>   unix                   14960  23 (autoclean)
>   $ lspci
>   0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX
> Host bridge (AGP disabled) (rev 03)
>   0000:00:0d.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c875
> (rev 37)
>   0000:00:0d.1 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c875
> (rev 37)
>   0000:00:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9 [Ethernet
> Pro 100] (rev 05)
>   0000:00:10.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9 [Ethernet
> Pro 100] (rev 08)
>   0000:00:12.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev
> 02)
>   0000:00:12.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE
> (rev 01)
>   0000:00:12.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB
> (rev 01)
>   0000:00:12.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
>   0000:00:14.0 VGA compatible controller: Cirrus Logic GD 5480 (rev 23)
>   $
>
> > lspci
> > This will give you a printout off all the devices you have.
>
> Well, all _PCI_ devices (including mini-PCI ones).  ;->  It's nothing
> more or less than the result of asking the PCI controller chip "What'cha
> got?"  In olden days, you'd also run pnpdump (for ISA Plug and Play
> devices -- which of course would not register non-PNP stuff).  These
> days, you also query lsusb, if you want to get somewhat close to "all
> devices".
>
> Skim-reading "dmesg | more" is also often useful.
>
>
>
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