I just picked up a 6-7 year old ASUS L3800 laptop from my in laws house. Wiped out the hard drive and I installed Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope). I have no idea what configuration the laptop (Intel Processor, RAM, Harddrive etc.).

Most importantly I don't even know if the laptop has wireless internet capability (internal wireless card). I tried doing some physical search in the back of laptop and also looking into configuration of L3800 laptops but no luck.

I also ran 'lspci -v | less' and couldn't tell if wireless card exist or not and what kind? Could you please help me find out if I have a wireless card. Any commands or programs would be great!

Here's the output of my lspci command:

gkapoor77@Ubuntu:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845 845 [Brookdale] Chipset Host Bridge (rev 04)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82845 845 [Brookdale] Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 04)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM USB Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM USB Controller #2 (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.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM SMBus 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 M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500]
02:05.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
02:07.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev a8 )
02:07.1 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev a8 )
02:07.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C552 IEEE 1394 Controller

From lspci, it does not appear that you have a wireless card, at least not on the PCI bus. Some of the L3800 do, I found this link, it's in German, you will see the wireless card in lspci on that system.

http://home.arcor.de/hirnstrom/linux...n_laptops.html

The easy way to add it is to buy a PCMCIA card, and plug it in. If you go that route, investigate the chip set first. I have an older Thinkpad, and wound up buying two cards, before I found one with native linux support. The stores don't have a clew what they are selling, asking there is almost pointless. I'm using a D-link DWL-G630. It has native support, I also have a D-link DWL-650+, it would only work with Ndiswrapper and the windoze driver.

You do have an ethernet card, so you can plug hardwire it, until you get a card.