Re: Please help with - it seems - no WiFi interface at all

[Nick Metz <nick.metz@fhe3.com>]

Hi,

Can you please send the output of lspci and lsmod? So we can see if the 
hardware is their and driver is loaded.

best regards
Nick

Am 28.06.2015 um 13:33 schrieb Lisi Reisz:
> 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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