Determining the WiFi Chipset in your computer

So you want to know about the WiFi chipset in your computer so you can run aircrack-ng or recon-ng. Well there is a pretty simple way to get that answer.

The first command you should use is sudo update-pciids this will update the PCI Id’s so that the other command will identify the hardware correctly.

Next we can run this command sudo lspci -vvv -k which essentially “lists” the object on the PCI bus, in -vvv very verbose and -k showing the kernel driver handling the device.

So here is partial output from the command.

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