Re: wpa_supplicant issues

[Eric Haszlakiewicz <erh%nimenees.com@localhost>]

On January 21, 2016 11:03:38 AM EST, Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mottola%libero.it@localhost> wrote:
>hi, that helped a bit. I found that the card was seeing many 
>accesspoints, but not the one I was trying to connect to.
>
>I think the culprit is that the access point is "g" only (asked the 
>system administrator) while my card is running in "b" mode only.
>
>This is my dmesg:
>ipw0 at pci1 dev 2 function 0: vendor 0x8086 product 0x1043 (rev. 0x04)
>ipw0: interrupting at irq 11
>ipw0: 802.11 address 00:0c:f1:2e:4a:3b
>ipw0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
>
>The ThinkPad R51 I own (but got second-hand) came with two adapters as 
>option: intel 2100 and 2200, only the later is b+g capable.
>
>Can I know from dmesg or with some other tool from NetBSD which version

The information you need is the vendor id and product id, 0x8086 and 0x1043 in this case.

A web search for those indicates that you have the 2100 adapter.

Eric