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| Newer page: | version 14 | Last edited on Thursday, August 2, 2007 2:03:21 pm | by JohnMcPherson | |
| Older page: | version 8 | Last edited on Thursday, July 26, 2007 11:19:57 pm | by ElroyLiddington | Revert |
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These are pages that have been created for Perry's PCI identification scripts.
-(see http://www.wlug.org.nz/~perry/pci/) To find out about your hardware download http://www.wlug.org.nz/~perry/pci/pci.sh
+(see http://www.wlug.org.nz/~
~perry/pci/) To find out about your hardware download http://www.wlug.org.nz/~
~perry/pci/pci.sh
and look at the URL it produces.
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-Maybe look at replacing this page with the following:
+!
Maybe look at replacing this page with the following:
-(humourous example of a PCI ID and how it works will go here, with reference to companies mistakenly anothers ID)
+(humourous example of a PCI ID and how it works will go here, with reference to companies mistakenly using
anothers PCI
ID)
-A PCI ID is a 'Peripheral Component Interconnect
' (i.e. a piece of hardware) 'IDentifier
'.
+A __
PCI ID__
is a '__P__eripheral __C__omponent __I__nterconnect
' (i.e. a piece of hardware) '__ID__entifier
'.
There is currently a list of _some_ PCI IDs located here: [http://pciids.sourceforge.net/pci.ids] (WARNING: File is ~500KB in size as of 7/2007).
@@ -25,11 +25,35 @@
* Locate the PCI ID using your favourite text/word/whatever editor inside the pci-id database - read what is next to the entry for what your hardware _might_ be...
+NOTES: If your GNU/Linux box is showing ('lspci') your hardware as e.g. '0034 Unknown IDE Controller' etc:
+
+* Download the latest PCI ID list.
+
+* Change to root user 'su root'
+
+* Locate current PCI ID file 'slocate pci.ids'
+
+* Backup current PCI ID file 'cp /path/to/current/file/pci.ids original.pci.ids'
+
+* Make sure our backup worked 'ls -lh' (check existence of copied file, and compare size to original - should be the same)
+
+* Delete current pci.ids file (MAKE SURE IT WAS BACKED UP FIRST!) 'rm /path/to/current/file/pci.ids'
+
+* Copy latest pci.ids to proper directory 'cp pci.ids /path/to/current/file/'
+
+* Check it worked - hopefully if your device has been added to the latest database (if not in there, _please add it_ via notes on pci.ids file homepage), an 'lspci' will come up and correctly identify your previously unknown piece of hardware :)
+
+* Profit!!!
+
+
+Misc Notes:
+
+* Vendor ID; Product ID; Device ID - e.g. 8086:7e3t:u6i9
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