A Couple of neat tricks I learned while trying to establish a wi-fi Internet connection through the command line are the command line instructions for discovering a computer's hardware and the device drivers that make them work. Those commands are: lshw lspci lsusb and lsdev The first three of those commands are available on most, if not all, Linux environments. lsdev must be installed using sudo apt-get install procinfo . You should run them as the root user either by adding sudo before the command else by typing sudo su (followed by pressing the return) key as your first … [Read more...]