Inspecting Network Cards In Ubuntu

I was planning to upgrade my home network into Gigabit. Before I start to spend money on it, I wanted to check the capabilities of the network cards on my laptop. Here is how I did it.

Install ‘hwinfo’. Its quite an useful tool as it can check the configuration of any hardware. Refer the manpage of more information.

sudo apt-get install hwinfo

To display details of the network cards on the system, type:

sudo hwinfo --netcard

Alternatively one can use

lshw -C network

to display details of the network card. Read manpage for more on lshw.