How to find out your wireless card chipset information

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wireless-cardWhen for some reason our distro fails to auto install our wireless network card, we first need to identity its chipset, so open up a terminal and type:

lspci | egrep -i --color 'wifi|wlan|wireless'

In my case the results returned were

02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR242x / AR542x Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)

In this take notice the 02:00.0 at the beginning and now let’s find out the wireless card driver information

lspci -vv -s 0c:00.0
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