set up wireless internet

[Nils Kassube]

Douglas Pollard wrote:
> I am trying to get my wireless card working. The card has been in the
> machine a long time but has not been in use in about a year. It is a
> Linksys card But I have no numbers as to make and model. My ubuntu
> 8.04 64 bit system can't seem to see it. I don't believe I have the
> correct driver on board. I have been to the Ubuntu 8.04 help page and
> spent a great deal of yesterday trying to work my way through this.
> Without a card number I can't pick a driver to install. Is there a
> way to get the card number without taking the card out and actually
> reading the numbers or a way to pick a driver??

In a terminal use these commands:

lspci
lsusb
sudo lshw -C network

One of them should give the desired info.


Nils