WiFi for a laptop

[Richard England]

Karl Larsen wrote:
> Cameron Simpson wrote:
>> On 06Jul2007 16:40, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
>>  
>>> Hi Sam, if Windows is right the WAN miniport is a L2TP whatever that 
>>> is. The CPU is Intel and can step down in speed from about 2791 MHz. 
>>> Since you have two laptops working can you point me to any help you 
>>> used? I have the latest kernel 3232 that has a lot of stuff in 
>>> modules and I can get them to work if I knew how.
>>>     
>>
>> It's worth checking the output of the "lspci" command under linux.
>> For example, mine includes these lines:
>>
>>   02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82540EP Gigabit 
>> Ethernet Controller (Mobile) (rev 03)
>>   02:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG 
>> Network Connection (rev 05)
>>
>> The bottom one is my WiFi interface.
>>
>> My /etc/modprobe.conf file says (amongst other things):
>>
>>   alias eth0 e1000
>>   alias eth1 ipw2200
>>
>> which causes the command "modprobe eth1" to load the ipw2200 module.
>>
>> I'd imagine the "system-config-network" command should figure this 
>> out on its
>> own for the common cases. How's it do for you?
>>   
>    Well mine is no where as clear as yours. I have two so called 
> ethernet cards in my laptop. One is a Atheros Communications Inc. and 
> the other is a Realtek Semiconductor Co. so I'm not sure which is 
> what. Guess I will run both through Google.
>
> Karl
>
Sheesh.

Why don't you post the output from lspci so everyone can see it. 

You probably have a NIC (Network Interface Card) as well as a WiFI card. 

I would suspect the Atheros is the WiFi but with no evidence it is hard 
to know.