[ale] Network Vendor String

[Jerry Yu]

it reads from /usr/share/hwdata/pci.ids, a local file-based PCI ID database.

On 10/10/06, Watson, Keith R. <krwatson at cc.gatech.edu> wrote:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> > ale at jeffx.com
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 11:46
> > To: ale at ale.org
> > Subject: [ale] Network Vendor String
> >
> > Say I am writing a little script to obtain hardware inventory on my
> linux
> > system.  I want the vendor string of the network card(s).  I know
> there
> > has to be a way to get it because the installer reads the information
> as
> > does network-configuration tools.
> >
> > I have looked around in /proc with no success.  Is there a way to get
> that
> > information?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Jeff
> >
>
>
> Jeff,
>
> The best way to find out what kind of card you have is to do a PCI
> query. This returns ID information for all the PCI devices in the
> system. You can then lookup the ID information in a database to get
> specific make and model information.
>
> Craig's PCI & PnP Stuff Pages - explains how all this works.
> http://members.datafast.net.au/~dft0802/
>
> Linux/UNIX PCI utilities
> http://mj.ucw.cz/pciutils.shtml
>
> Linux PCI Device ID Repository
> http://pciids.sourceforge.net/
>
> PCI SIG Official PCI Vendor ID Database Search Engine
> http://www.pcisig.com/membership/vid_search
>
> Craig has DOS utility that will run from a floppy (this is handy for
> booting a system from floppy to find out what hardware is installed)
> http://members.datafast.net.au/~dft0802/downloads.htm
> http://members.datafast.net.au/~dft0802/downloads/pci.zip
>
> Craig's PCI database
> http://members.datafast.net.au/~dft0802/downloads.htm
> http://members.datafast.net.au/~dft0802/downloads/pcidevs.txt
>
>
> keith
>
> --
>
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