Wireless Help

[Rick Stevens]

brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote:
> Hit the after Thanksgiving sales this morning - got a Motorola 
> wireless hub and card for my notebook so I can get away from 
> being so wired all the time.
> 
>>From what I've read I need to install ndiswrapper to get Linux 
> (Red Hat 9) to recognize the card.  I'd rather not have to build 
> it if I can avoid it so I went looking for some RPM's.
> 
> Found what I need but there are so many choices (most of which 
> I've figured out) but I need to know the architucture (386, 586, 
> 686) of the Kernel I've installed.  I know it should match the 
> hardware in the notebook but I'd like to verify before going 
> forward.
> 
> Any quick way to figure it out?

The vast majority of newer (< 5 years old) computers are based on the
i686.  This includes the Pentium-III, Pentium-IV, Celeron and Xeon.
Others are based on the Athlon (Athlon, AthlonXP, Atheros).  64-bit
machines are typically based on the Athlon-64 (Opteron) or the x86-64
platform.

"uname -m" will give you the baseline processor you're using.  You
still must determine if you're running SMP (multiple processors).
For that, you can "cat /proc/cpuinfo".  That lists all of the details
of the processors the kernel saw when it came up.
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