Re: Please help with - it seems - no WiFi interface at all
On Sunday 28 June 2015 11:04:17 Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> On my old Hyundai laptop there seems to be no WiFi interface at all:
> there's no wlan0 entry in ifconfig's output:
>
> # ifconfig -a
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:03:0d:33:02:17
> inet addr:192.168.1.4 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> inet6 addr: fe80::203:dff:fe33:217/64 Scope:Link
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:31034 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:32671 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> RX bytes:27149691 (25.8 MiB) TX bytes:6133808 (5.8 MiB)
>
> lo Link encap:Local Loopback
> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
> inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
> RX packets:84 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:84 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> RX bytes:18333 (17.9 KiB) TX bytes:18333 (17.9 KiB)
>
> , and also
>
> # lshw -c network
> *-network
> description: Ethernet interface
> product: SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet
> vendor: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
> physical id: 4
> bus info: pci@0000:00:04.0
> logical name: eth0
> version: 91
> serial: 00:03:0d:33:02:17
> size: 100Mbit/s
> capacity: 100Mbit/s
> width: 32 bits
> clock: 33MHz
> capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical tp mii
> 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation configuration:
> autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=sis900 driverversion=v1.08.10 Apr.
> 2 2006 duplex=full ip=192.168.1.4 latency=64 link=yes maxlatency=11
> mingnt=52 multicast=yes port=MII speed=100Mbit/s resources: irq:19
> ioport:d800(size=256) memory:dfffc000-dfffcfff memory:dffc0000-dffdffff
>
> shows up - as far as I understand - nothing about WiFi.
>
> Please help abilitate WiFi connection on that PC. With google I couldn't
> work it out.
Have you got the driver for your wifi card? and is it installed?
Lisi
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