How do I find the name of my Wireless Chipset?

[gmf64]

I have finally got my wireless up and running on my Toshiba Satellite L555D-103. Now, I want to find out what chipset my wireless is using. I have searched the Toshiba website, googled and used the forums. Can anyone point me in the right direction? And can I find out by using commands in the terminal?

Here is what I can find as of now.

lshw gives me (have taken away what I don't think is needed.
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:0e:00.0
logical name: wlan0
version: 10
serial: 70:1a:04:29:74:76
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rtl819xSE driverversion=V 1.1 firmware=49 ip=192.168.1.4 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=802.11bgn
resources: irq:18 ioport:a000(size=256) memory:f0200000-f0203fff


*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:14:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 02
serial: 00:26:22:37:03:61
size: 10MB/s
capacity: 100MB/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=half latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=MII speed=10MB/s
resources: irq:29 ioport:b000(size=256) memory:f0410000-f0410fff(prefetchable) memory:f0400000-f040ffff(prefetchable) memory:f0420000-f043ffff(prefetchable)


lspci gives me (I have taken away things I don't believe is needed)

0e:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 8172 (rev 10)
14:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02)

[nick_goodfate]

try this in terminal

lspci | grep Network

sorry you already done it , i didnt noticed

[lotharmat]

if that doesn't find it try

lsusb | grep network

Damn - I need to learn to read too!

But yeah - You have a realtek rtl8172

[mgmiller]

sudo lspci

is what shows me mine:

marty@marty-laptop:~$ sudo lspci
[sudo] password for marty: 
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82830 830 Chipset Host Bridge (rev 04)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82830 830 Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 04)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM USB Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 42)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801CAM ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801CAM IDE U100 Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 LY
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 78)
02:01.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420 PC card Cardbus Controller
02:01.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420 PC card Cardbus Controller
07:00.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI

In my case, it's the last line:
07:00.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI

This is a cardbus device (pcmcia). If yours is a built in, i'm not sure how it would show up. If it's a USB device, the lsusb should show it to you.

[gmf64]

Funny thing this Linux. After using 2 days I finally got the wireless working. Now, it doesn't want to connect again. I try to connect and after the "spinning wheel" finishes on top, it just states it has disconnected. Yikes. Linux ! Yes I know, It's not Linux, but myself who needs to learn more. (Now I am on my other Windows laptop).

That aside, and back to the point. I still can't find out what chipset my wireless uses. Any search ablilities through google I haven't thought about or any other commands I can use on the terminal ?

[chili555]

I still can't find out what chipset my wireless uses.

0e:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 8172 (rev 10)

That's it!

[gmf64]

Ok. I might be too much of a newbie here. As you say:

"That's it !
0e:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 8172 (rev 10)"

I thought Device was used when the commands didn't find the name. Like a John Doe kind of thing.

Looking through the Realtek homepage "Device 8172", "8172" etc. doesn't give any hits. When I search for "chipset", I get a lot of series and names but not 8172. But when I look at their FAQ I see near identical numbers/names referred to as drivers.

So just to clarify, so I don't need to go through this when I start looking around to see if this chipset can be used for wardriving etc (part of my bachelor project), what you are telling me is that my chipset is called Device 8172 ?

[bkratz]

Here is someone with the same chipset (see where it shows up red), I did a search (above) for 8172 in the networking and wireless section and found quite a few entries.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...highlight=8172
Here is the search results

http://ubuntuforums.org/search.php?searchid=69201678

[bkratz]

Also here is one with directions

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...highlight=8172

[gmf64]

"Here is someone with the same chipset"

Yup, that's my first post, while trying to get the drivers for the wireless to work.

And the other link you posted is the one I used when installing the drivers. It worked. But thanx.

I guess my problem is that what I keep thinking of as drivers are the name of the chipset.