Charles Pittman wrote: > On 4/12/05, *Nick Rout* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 07:26:39 -0400 > Charles Pittman wrote: > > > > Do all Pentium M processors have integrated wireless? I guess > that would > > explain the wireless on/off button on the left-had side of my > laptop (which > > I can't use, because no program recognizes any of those hotkeys). > > No pentium m processors have integrated wireless. the pentium m is a > cpu. > > However centrino machines have built in wireless, its part of the > centrino spec. centrino also uses pentium m. but just because your > machine has a pentium-m cpu, doesn't make it centrino. > > lspci should tell you if you have a wireless chipset in your > machine. If it has a centrino sticker, then it should have wireless. > > Hope that clears up the confusion. > > -- > Nick Rout > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org <mailto:gentoo-user@gentoo.org> mailing list > > > It does. I can't remember all of the stickers that came on this laptop > because I took them all off (I even had a Windows sticker on here even > though I ordered the computer with a blank harddrive!). > > I don't see any wireless devices on the lspci output, but I can't even > identify a couple of the entries.
FYI here is an lspci output from a Dell Centrino machine. The Broadcom entry at the bottom is the builtin wireless card, which incidentally only works with NDISWrapper. 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to I/O Controller (rev 03) 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to AGP Controller (rev 03) 0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01) 0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01) 0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01) 0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01) 0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 81) 0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01) 0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev 01) 0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01) 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 Lf [FireGL 9000] (rev 02) 0000:02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5705M Gigabit Ethernet (rev 01) 0000:02:01.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711EC1 SmartCardBus Controller (rev 20) 0000:02:01.1 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711EC1 SmartCardBus Controller (rev 20) 0000:02:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03) Byron -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
