To obtain information about the driver for the wirless interface in a Microsoft Windows system, the
netsh command may be used.
After issuing the command from a command prompt, you can type wlan,
then show drivers to show the properites of the wireless
LAN drivers on the system.
C:\Users\JDoe>netsh
netsh>wlan
netsh wlan>show drivers
Interface name: Wi-Fi
Driver : Realtek RTL8188E Wireless LAN 802.11n PCI-E NIC
Vendor : Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
Provider : Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
Date : 2/27/2013
Version : 2007.10.227.2013
INF file : C:\windows\INF\oem13.inf
Files : 2 total
C:\windows\system32\DRIVERS\rtwlane.sys
C:\windows\system32\drivers\vwifibus.sys
Type : Native Wi-Fi Driver
Radio types supported : 802.11n 802.11b 802.11g
FIPS 140-2 mode supported : No
802.11w Management Frame Protection supported : Yes
Hosted network supported : Yes
Authentication and cipher supported in infrastructure mode:
Open None
WPA2-Personal CCMP
Open WEP-40bit
Open WEP-104bit
Open WEP
WPA-Enterprise TKIP
WPA-Personal TKIP
WPA2-Enterprise TKIP
WPA2-Personal TKIP
WPA-Enterprise CCMP
WPA-Personal CCMP
WPA2-Enterprise CCMP
Vendor defined TKIP
Vendor defined CCMP
Vendor defined Vendor defined
Vendor defined Vendor defined
WPA2-Enterprise Vendor defined
WPA2-Enterprise Vendor defined
Vendor defined Vendor defined
Vendor defined Vendor defined
Authentication and cipher supported in ad-hoc mode:
Open None
Open WEP-40bit
Open WEP-104bit
Open WEP
WPA2-Personal CCMP
IHV service present : Yes
IHV adapter OUI : [00 e0 4c], type: [00]
IHV extensibility DLL path: C:\windows\system32\Rtlihvs.dll
IHV UI extensibility ClSID: {6c2a8cca-b2a2-4d81-a3b2-4e15f445c312}
IHV diagnostics CLSID : {00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}
netsh wlan>Or you can issue the netsh wlan show drivers command
at the command prompt to have the information shown and be immediately
returned to the command prompt.
