Hi,

Yeh what dxq said:

lspci -v

should give you the all the info on what chipset your wifi card is based on, if it is a ralink card it shouldn't be too hard to find drivers for it as ralink actually released a driver for linux under the gpl.

http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/...itle=Main_Page

Thats the site for the driver development project.

I am actually not sure about being a ralink card, but Vista and RH hardware rowser seem to think is a Railink.. no model number provided..
However if I do the suggested command I get no "Ralink" displayed as device name. This is from Fedora:

[root@localhost ~]# lspci -v
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
Subsystem: Uniwill Computer Corp Unknown device 9916
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: [e0] Vendor Specific Information

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Uniwill Computer Corp Unknown device 9916
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
Memory at b0080000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
I/O ports at 1800 [size=8]
Memory at c0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Memory at b0040000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K]
Capabilities: [90] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable-
Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2

00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
Subsystem: Uniwill Computer Corp Unknown device 9916
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Memory at b0100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: Uniwill Computer Corp Unknown device 9084
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 21
Memory at f0000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [60] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-
Capabilities: [70] Express Unknown type IRQ 0

00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=03, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 0000f000-0000ffff
Memory behind bridge: fac00000-febfffff
Capabilities: [40] Express Root Port (Slot+) IRQ 0
Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable-
Capabilities: [90] #0d [0000]
Capabilities: [a0] Power Management version 2

00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=04, subordinate=04, sec-latency=0
Capabilities: [40] Express Root Port (Slot+) IRQ 0
Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable-
Capabilities: [90] #0d [0000]
Capabilities: [a0] Power Management version 2

00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=05, subordinate=05, sec-latency=0
Memory behind bridge: f7000000-f70fffff
Capabilities: [40] Express Root Port (Slot+) IRQ 0
Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable-
Capabilities: [90] #0d [0000]
Capabilities: [a0] Power Management version 2

00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Uniwill Computer Corp Unknown device 907b
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 20
I/O ports at 1820 [size=32]

00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Uniwill Computer Corp Unknown device 907b
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
I/O ports at 1840 [size=32]

00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Uniwill Computer Corp Unknown device 907b
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
I/O ports at 1860 [size=32]

00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Uniwill Computer Corp Unknown device 907b
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
I/O ports at 1880 [size=32]

00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: Uniwill Computer Corp Unknown device 907b
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 20
Memory at f0004000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [58] Debug port

00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2) (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=06, subordinate=06, sec-latency=32
I/O behind bridge: 00002000-00002fff
Memory behind bridge: f0200000-f02fffff
Capabilities: [50] #0d [0000]

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
Subsystem: Uniwill Computer Corp Unknown device 907b
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: [e0] Vendor Specific Information

00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: Uniwill Computer Corp Unknown device 907b
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
I/O ports at <unassigned>
I/O ports at <unassigned>
I/O ports at <unassigned>
I/O ports at <unassigned>
I/O ports at 1810 [size=16]

00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) Serial ATA Storage Controller IDE (rev 02) (prog-if 8f [Master SecP SecO PriP PriO])
Subsystem: Uniwill Computer Corp Unknown device 907b
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
I/O ports at 18d0 [size=8]
I/O ports at 18c4 [size=4]
I/O ports at 18c8 [size=8]
I/O ports at 18c0 [size=4]
I/O ports at 18b0 [size=16]
Memory at f0004400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: [70] Power Management version 2

00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: Uniwill Computer Corp Unknown device 907b
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 19
I/O ports at 18e0 [size=32]

06:05.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
Subsystem: Uniwill Computer Corp Unknown device 9700
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 17
I/O ports at 2000 [size=256]
Memory at b0200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

Very weird!! I think your'll have to open up the laptop to find out the exact make and model of the wifi card, its most likely in the mini-pci slot on the bottom of the laptop. I found this site:

http://www.thetechguys.com/

It seems to be the support arm of the dixons group that own pcworld etc and advent are there own brand. If you dig around on it there may be some manuals telling you how to open the laptop.

The mini-pci slot should be accessible from the bottom of the laptop, look for a removable panel about 7cm x 7cm in area.

Also on the windows side what does device manager say about who wrote the driver for the card?

Chris.

Hi all

Ok, I have opened the laptop, it's a 2571 (mPCI)

I have also managed to install an handfull of drivers, none worked lol. I am beginning to suspect that I ll have to wait for some decent driver. Meanwhile I am lounging on the serial monkeys site in the hope of some news/help.

Meanwhile thank you for the help and of course if you know of something post back!