{"id":78,"date":"2022-11-24T00:22:02","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T00:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davewells.me\/?p=78"},"modified":"2022-11-26T00:59:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T00:59:13","slug":"determining-the-wifi-chipset-in-your-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davewells.me\/?p=78","title":{"rendered":"Determining the WiFi Chipset in your computer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"alignwide has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-heading\" style=\"font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;line-height:1.1\">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.<br><br>The first command you should use is <strong>sudo update-pciids<\/strong> this will update the PCI Id&#8217;s so that the other command will identify the hardware correctly. <br><br>Next we can run this command <strong>sudo lspci -vvv -k<\/strong> which essentially &#8220;lists&#8221; the object on the PCI bus, in <strong>-vvv<\/strong> very verbose and <strong>-k <\/strong>showing the kernel driver handling the device.<br><br>So here is partial output from the command.<mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-white-color\"><br><\/mark><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"724\" height=\"36\" src=\"https:\/\/davewells.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-from-2022-11-19-18-40-11.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-86\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davewells.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-from-2022-11-19-18-40-11.png 724w, https:\/\/davewells.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-from-2022-11-19-18-40-11-300x15.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s so that the other command will identify the hardware correctly.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link\">\n\t\t\t\t\t <a href=\"https:\/\/davewells.me\/?p=78\" class=\"link-btn theme-btn\"><span>Read More <\/span> <i class=\"fa fa-caret-right\"><\/i><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[11,8,9,13,12,10,14],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","tag-atheros","tag-intel","tag-linux","tag-lspci","tag-pci","tag-realtek","tag-wifi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davewells.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davewells.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davewells.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davewells.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davewells.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/davewells.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108,"href":"https:\/\/davewells.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davewells.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davewells.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davewells.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- This website is optimized by Airlift. Learn more: https://airlift.net. Template:. Learn more: https://airlift.net. Template: 69a017a6c6af5adb9634f6fd. Config Timestamp: 2026-02-26 09:51:33 UTC, Cached Timestamp: 2026-04-24 12:18:32 UTC -->