On Tue, 28 Jul 2020 00:24:48 +0200 (CEST) qbasicj...@gmail.com wrote: > I bought a RTL8723BE from eBay hoping that it would enable my laptop
I have been reading the Debian Installation manual and according to it [vendorID:ProductID] is the most reliable way to to identify devices[1]. "For USB and PCI/PCI-Express/ExpressCard devices, a good way to find out on which chipset they are based is to look at their device IDs. All USB/PCI/PCI-Express/ExpressCard devices have so called “vendor” and “product” IDs, and the combination of these two is usually the same for any product based on the same chipset." For example if I execute this command in the terminal $ lspci -nnk Then the output I get is: #+BEGIN_SRC shell 06:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9565 / AR9565 \ Wireless Network Adapter [168c:0036] (rev 01) Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:020c] Kernel driver in use: ath9k Kernel modules: ath9k #+END_SRC So my [VendorID:ProductID] is: [168c:0036]. [1]: https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch03s03.en.html#idm525 Regards! Starfish