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    How to find out if I have bigfoot networks killer in laptop

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Anntoeknee, Dec 17, 2011.

  1. Anntoeknee

    Anntoeknee Notebook Enthusiast

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    Like the title says. Just got my laptop in the mail and trying make sure I have everything I have ordered installed...
     
    Anntoeknee, Dec 17, 2011
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    Nick Professor Carnista

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    Yours should list a bigfoot network card.

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    pitz Notebook Deity

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    You might see something like "Atheros 9380" as well in the driver listing.

    For instance, if you do a lspci -v command, it might show up as:

    Code: 
    02:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Device 0777:4e05
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
        Memory at fbd00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
        Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
        Capabilities: [60] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
        Capabilities: [90] MSI-X: Enable- Count=1 Masked-
        Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
        Capabilities: [140] Virtual Channel
        Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
        Kernel driver in use: ath9k
        Kernel modules: ath9k
    (this is for a 9280 card....a 9380 card, of course, will have different numbers!).
     
    pitz, Dec 17, 2011
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