Wednesday, September 18, 2013

How to find Wireless Card details / Unknown device details…

Hi all,Open-mouthed smile
This blog is for those new bees trying to install OS X or Linux on their PCs and don't able to find some specific device model numbers. Eye rolling smile
well, today i am going to write on how to find out laptop wireless card details on windows pc.
  • First go to properties of your computer by right clicking on My Computer icon and selecting properties…
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  • Now select “Device Manager” from the left pane.
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  • Now in device manager box double click on the specific device of which you need to know the details.(i need to know about my wireless card details so i am going to select it)
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  • Now go to the “Details” Tab and select “Hardware IDs” from the drop down menu.
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  • Select every line and copy this information on notepad.
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  • Now this will give you the vender id and device ids of your device…(the red circle mark is the vender id and deice ids of my wireless card)
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  • here my wireless card “Vender ID=14E4” & “Device ID=4727”
  • Now go the “https://devicehunt.com/” and search by either Vender ID or by Device ID. ( I will go by Vender ID Winking smile)
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  • When you press “Search” button, you will get the result like below,
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  • Click on the “Vender Name”. You will get the list of available device ids and general information on it. (Which is very long..Surprised smile).
  • So just press “CTRL + F” to find the web page and enter the vender id or device id there. And keep pressing next until you find the details of your ID. (Mine is Wireless Card so i will keep searching for it)
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  • Finally i have got all the details of my wireless card Hot smile.
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  • Now i can find out drivers for the specific device and install it to my computer. You can find any unknown device drivers by this method.
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