# Type iwconfig into the terminal to see what wireless network interfaces have been detected.
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Type sudo lshw (or lspci or lsusb) to list hardware and get details on the chipset that your card uses. Try searching the Internet or posting in the help forums for your Linux distribution to see if there's support for the chipset your card uses.
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If you're using Linux Mint, try MintWifi.
Here is the output
Code:
iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
Code:
mintwifi
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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
sh: cannot create /tmp/detected_wireless_devices: Permission denied
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* II. querying ndiswrapper...
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* III. querying iwconfig...
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
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* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1d:09:93:d2:39
inet addr:192.168.2.4 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::21d:9ff:fe93:d239/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1492 Metric:1
RX packets:40335 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:31316 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:48683381 (48.6 MB) TX bytes:6393016 (6.3 MB)
Memory:fdfc0000-fdfe0000
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:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:318 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:318 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:20404 (20.4 KB) TX bytes:20404 (20.4 KB)
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* V. querying DHCP...
There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.pid with pid 4665
killed old client process, removed PID file
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.3
Copyright 2004-2009 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/
Listening on LPF/eth0/00:1d:09:93:d2:39
Sending on LPF/eth0/00:1d:09:93:d2:39
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPREQUEST of 192.168.2.4 on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPACK of 192.168.2.4 from 192.168.2.1
bound to 192.168.2.4 -- renewal in 796646274 seconds.
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* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
Server: 192.168.2.1
Address: 192.168.2.1#53
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.34.65
Name: google.com