seeing a wireless card

[Jon Savage]

> bruce wrote:
>
> >using the gui (gnome) i go into shthe system/networks area. the only thing i
> >see in this area is the initial eth0 setup. i don't see anything related to
> >the new card, even though it's plugged into the wifi/network card port on
> >the side of the laptop...
Is your card supported natively?
do /sbin/lspci -v
you should see (hopefully) your card there; in my case I see:
05:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One
54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 1355
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
        Memory at c0204000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
since my  card is *not* natively supported it does not show up in the
gui --I need to use ndiswrapper for now.
you may need that or madwifi to get your card to work.


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Bests,
Jon