Usually in linux
than you look for something like this: example my asus g75vw notebook
Quote:
03:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
Subsystem: AzureWave AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter
Kernel driver in use: ath9k
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and usually you see also when it is properly setup which kernel driver is used: ath9k
this is second try:
when you know if the kernel is properly loaded / or kernel module is properly loaded for your wireless
than you can setup your wifi
e.g. /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
+ dhcpcd
not sure on how networkmanager handles this as I have hardmasked it for other reasons.
this is more a distro issue than, on how they setup their boxes. also systemd may be different