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  • snoodwattle@lemm.eetoLinux@lemmy.ml•How to figure out the exact driver needed for the WiFi card to install it on Linux?
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    1 year ago

    You could also check the symlinks for the device in the sysfs. The word after "drivers" below for a given network interface (eth0 below) is usually the name of the driver (cpsw below):

    $ ls -l /sys/class/net/eth0/device/driver   
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Aug  9 10:41 /sys/class/net/eth0/device/driver -> ../../../../bus/platform/drivers/cpsw

    Or run lsmod and see if anything jumps out.

    Either way, once you find the driver name, run modinfo to get version and other information about specific drivers.

    Edit: formatting