[ubuntu-za] acer WLAN driver problems

[Lee Sharp]

Daniel Auger wrote:

> To Lee: I'm afraid I don't know what the restricted driver manager is 
> nor do I know what Ispci is unfortunately.

Sorry...  I used to old name.  Under System --> Administration --> 
Hardware Drivers.  See what it shows.

And "lspci" is a shell command that stands for "LiSt PCI devices."  You 
run it from a terminal, and it says all your PCI stuff...  For example;

lee at portable:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV 
Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:00.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV 
Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:00.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV 
Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM 
Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated 
Graphics Device (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM 
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM 
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM 
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 
EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 81)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface 
Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE 
Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM 
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) 
AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 01)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5705M 
Gigabit Ethernet (rev 01)
01:01.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI7510 PC card Cardbus 
Controller (rev 01)
01:01.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI7510,7610 PC card Cardbus 
Controller (rev 01)
01:01.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCI7410,7510,7610 
OHCI-Lynx Controller
01:01.3 System peripheral: Texas Instruments PCI7410,7510,7610 PCI 
Firmware Loading Function
01:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g 
Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)



The last line is my nic, which requires that restricted driver and bios.

			Lee