new install- getting wireless to work

[Stephen Partington]

are you having trouble with wired or wireless? because that driver
information is all wired.

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/hardy/man4/if_sis.4.html


On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 1:09 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> In my search I happened upon this page:
>
> http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/net/ethernet/sis/sis900.c
>
>
> is this something I need to compile? do I save it as a c file and then
> make, make install it? Where do I save the compiled program?
>
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
> On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 12:58 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm putting Linux Mint 17.1 On a friends Inspiron 1000 and it isn't
>> seeing the wireless. Does anyone have any experience with this? Could
>> someone help?
>> this is all I can figure to do:
>> sudo lshw
>> --snip--
>>   *-network
>>              description: Ethernet interface
>>              product: SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet
>>              vendor: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
>>              physical id: 4
>>              bus info: pci at 0000:00:04.0
>>              logical name: eth0
>>              version: 91
>>              serial: 00:11:43:38:5e:9d
>>              size: 100Mbit/s
>>              capacity: 100Mbit/s
>>              width: 32 bits
>>              clock: 33MHz
>>              capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical
>> tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
>>              configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes
>> driver=sis900 driverversion=v1.08.10 Apr. 2 2006 duplex=full
>> ip=192.168.0.20 latency=173 link=yes maxlatency=11 mingnt=52 multicast=yes
>> port=MII speed=100Mbit/s
>>              resources: irq:19 ioport:1800(size=256)
>> memory:e4003000-e4003fff memory:28000000-2801ffff
>> --snip--
>>
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>
>
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