check wi-fi driver version

[registered]

there are many tutorials and how-tos on installing some specific wi-fi driver.

but, i can`t find how to check what wi-fi driver is currently installed in the system.

[blackdevice]

Simply type "airmon-ng" without quotes.
Then your WIFI interface, chipset and driver will shown up


Hope will help...

[maverik35]

Easy thing if you just know basic linux commands. First is it USB or miniPCI, pcmcia?...

miniPCI or pcmcia:
lspci | grep -i network
get the pci id (xx:xx.x) at the beggining of the output. then: lscpi -vvs xx:xx.x at the end of output, it is the driver used by kernel..

USB:
lsusb | grep -i network
get the USB : Device and then : lsusb -vvs xxx:xxx

or use the lsmod and look for the driver one by one. You can use pipes to filter results in lsmod...

If you want to know about the commands, type "man lspci", man lsusb, man lsmod...Read them....Every single command in linux has its own "man" (stands for MANual).

Luck.

[registered]

ok.
and how do i switch from one driver to another?

i`ve just installed compat-wireless on bt5r1 as described here
because with stock drivers my awus036nh shows nothing in airodump-ng

but airmon-ng still shows that it is using rt2800usb driver



maybe, there is some other backtrack and/or driver version i should use with awus036nh on a vmware?