[ale] Network Vendor String

[Jim Popovitch]

On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 08:55 -0700, ale at jeffx.com wrote:
> > Use this:
> > http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/oui.txt
> >
> > You can grep the first three pairs from your MAC address and get the
> > vendor.
> >
> 
> Thanks for the response.  That will come in handy.
> 
> It isn't really what I was looking for, however.  Running yast on a system
> I have right here shows that an unconfigured network card is a "Intel
> EtherExpress PRO/100+ Management Adapter".  Where does yast get that
> information from?

the same place that "lspci | grep Ethernet" does. ;-)  

Jim P.