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I have a Dell Inspiron 1420 with Vista installed. I did a clean install of Linux Ubuntu ver. 20.04 which wiped Vista upon install. Upon first boot system runs well with the exception: in settings no WiFi routers are listed. My assumption is that Ubuntu didn't find a driver for the WiFi card, which may be a Conexant RD02-D330 card, (from bottom of computer?). I there a known driver?

Is there a command in Ubuntu that lists hardware specifics such as hard drives, WiFi cards, etc., and the parameters for operation?

I'm new to Linux, so I need Linux answers for dummies.

Gogilbert
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For me inxi-F is the best readable and understandable display of the hardware currently used. The commands can be be executed in the terminal. If a device does not turn up, either dmesg or lspci -vvv might give you a hint.

kanehekili
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  • Thank you, i'll give that a try. – Gogilbert Apr 14 '23 at 01:17
  • Thank you kanehekill, I have output from the command lspci -vvv as follows but it means nothing to me, can you interpret? Ops, I don't know how to show screenshot jpg. – Gogilbert Apr 15 '23 at 20:55
  • You copy and paste it - you don't make screenshots from terminals. However your question has been closed -due to the lack of investigation. Ask again, if you don't find any solutions on the board. Don't be annoyed - we're getting many questions that already have been answered. To avoid duplicates we close them. – kanehekili Apr 15 '23 at 21:25
  • K, not annoyed but frustrated! – Gogilbert Apr 15 '23 at 21:29
  • Yes, understandable. But your infos may be incorrect. Look here and try to find out your "real" wifi hardware. (Conexant seems to be a modem, not wifi). If you found your driver try to find out (by searching here) how to install that driver. Note that you might be out of luck: Many drivers have been reversed engineered since the manufacturer will not provide neither information nor drivers for linux - but not all. If you cant find an installation instruction, ask a question like: "How to install driver xyz" – kanehekili Apr 15 '23 at 21:50
  • BTW - just by searching "Dell Inspiron 1420 wifi" I got directed to [this] (https://askubuntu.com/questions/55868/installing-broadcom-wireless-drivers). So you've got a broadcom wifi... I'm sure you'll get the gist. – kanehekili Apr 15 '23 at 22:01