Re: [Trisquel-users] I bought a new WiFi card for my laptop that was listed as working on hnode, but it doesn't work in Trisquel. :(

Tue, 28 Jul 2020 06:00:23 -0700 

On Tue, 28 Jul 2020 00:24:48 +0200 (CEST)
[email protected] wrote:

> I bought a RTL8723BE from eBay hoping that it would enable my laptop

I have been reading the Debian Installation manual and according to it
[vendorID:ProductID] is the most reliable way to to identify
devices[1].

"For USB and PCI/PCI-Express/ExpressCard devices, a good way to find
out on which chipset they are based is to look at their device
IDs. All USB/PCI/PCI-Express/ExpressCard devices have so called
“vendor” and “product” IDs, and the combination of these two is
usually the same for any product based on the same chipset."

For example if I execute this command in the terminal

$ lspci -nnk

Then the output I get is:

#+BEGIN_SRC shell 

06:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9565 / AR9565 \
Wireless Network Adapter [168c:0036] (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:020c]
        Kernel driver in use: ath9k
        Kernel modules: ath9k

#+END_SRC

So my [VendorID:ProductID] is: [168c:0036].


[1]: https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch03s03.en.html#idm525


Regards!
Starfish

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