unable to recognize wireless card

trewtzu · 08-02-2010, 01:47 AM

hey guys.

i just did a new install of slack 13.1 and i cant seem to be able to get my wireless card up.

my system is a new ish dell laptop,a vostro 3700

to be honest im not even really sure where to start here

if i ifconfig i only get my ethernet and my loopback and if i "iwconfig" i just get told that i have no wireless extensions.

yeah not sure what else to add,

any help would be great!
thanks

Jorek · 08-02-2010, 02:54 AM

Hi trewtzu!

It seems like you're not the only one with this problem.
As far as I know, the DW1520(which I believe is the one you got on your laptop) isn't supported by any linux driver yet.

Cheers,
Jorek

onebuck · 08-02-2010, 08:06 AM

Hi,

What is the output of 'lspci -vvn' from the 'cli' for the wireless portion?

trewtzu · 08-04-2010, 02:10 AM

NOOO Jorek dont tell me that!!

Quote:

Originally Posted by onebuck

Hi,

What is the output of 'lspci -vvn' from the 'cli' for the wireless portion?

i cant find a wireless portion so i just uploaded the whole thing to pastebin as its too large to submit here.

heres the link
http://pastebin.com/648y8tEF

thanks guys!

onebuck · 08-04-2010, 08:10 AM

Hi,

Quote:

Originally Posted by trewtzu

NOOO Jorek dont tell me that!!

i cant find a wireless portion so i just uploaded the whole thing to pastebin as its too large to submit here.

heres the link
http://pastebin.com/648y8tEF

thanks guys!

My bad! It should have been 'lspci -vv' to id the subsystems with human readable ID;

Quote:

excerpt from 'man lspci';

-n Show PCI vendor and device codes as numbers instead of looking them up
in the PCI ID list.

With the 'lspci -vv';

Quote:

excerpt 'man lspci';

-vv Be very verbose and display more details. This level includes every-
thing deemed useful.

You get everything, in that way you can identify subsystems visually. Otherwise a PCI ID database can be used: PCI ID database/repository