Linux check what PCI is detected

[zeus]

Ive got xubuntu installed and tried to install my wireless network card. There are plenty of instructions on the net but I can only get so far. I get up to the point where I should get a readout saying "hardware detected" or even the name of my wireless card.
I dont get this.

The thing is my card is plugged into a riser board ( 2 pci slots on a SFF riserboard) and im wondering if the cards (wifi and sound) are even recognised by xubuntu.

Is there a command I can enter which will tell me what pci cards are detected. I wouldnt have thought id need drivers for a riser card?

 

[Addis]

try lspci or look in the kernel log file by doing dmesg.

 

[donkey42]

try lspci or look in the kernel log file by doing dmesg.

lspci -vvx is generally the next step to try when something doesn't appear
using lspci -x should display all PCI devices, however, it doesn't compare with the PCI IDs file - it essentially just dumps all the PCI device IDs that it sees on the bus.

even unsupported hardware will at least identify itself to a 'lspci'. If it doesn't show up in that, it would seem that the card is not even reporting itself present to the system.

 

[zeus]

thanks for the replies.

I tried lspci -vvx and my soundcard and wifi card isnt in the return.

Maybe I do need to do something to get the riser card working.

 

[donkey42]

I tried lspci -vvx and my soundcard and wifi card isnt in the return.
Maybe I do need to do something to get the riser card working.

you shouldn't need to, but maybe removing & reinserting the cards and riser (if you can) then the devices may be visible to your system

Edit: does

lspci -x

display the missing hardware

 

[zeus]

:) Silly mistakes!! A reseat did it.

Its installed and im now trying to get it to connect to the router. There is only WEP in the options, no WPA2 which is a downer.

 

[donkey42]

:) Silly mistakes!! A reseat did it.

Its installed and im now trying to get it to connect to the router. There is only WEP in the options, no WPA2 which is a downer.

presumably the wlan0 section of /etc/network/interfaces look something like this:

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wpa-driver wext
wpa-ssid My_AP
wpa-ap-scan 2
wpa-proto WPA
wpa-pairwise TKIP
wpa-group TKIP
wpa-key-mgmt WPA-PSK
wpa-psk 83b2897b20a2ccfeaff34ecc596b1d67d9fb568188ad3e2ae5 fe1ab703ab359b

if not copy this to /etc/interfaces

BTW: personally i've never used Wireless, but the info i provided was on Ubuntuforums

 

[zeus]

It wont let me edit that file. Im just gonna try using wep instead.

EDIT: well using wep worked first time. Im typing this from xubuntu!

 

[donkey42]

It wont let me edit that file. Im just gonna try using wep instead.

i presume you can't edit, cos your not root type

sudo <editor> /etc/network/interfaces

BTW: replace <editor> with your editor (mine is Kate)

Edit: [quote=zeus]EDIT: well using wep worked first time. Im typing this from xubuntu![/quote]:good: congrats