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| Newer page: | version 13 | Last edited on Friday, July 27, 2007 12:07:31 am | by ElroyLiddington | Revert |
| Older page: | version 4 | Last edited on Monday, April 11, 2005 11:19:55 pm | by PerryLorier | 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
and look at the URL it produces.
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+!Maybe look at replacing this page with the following:
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+(humourous example of a PCI ID and how it works will go here, with reference to companies mistakenly using anothers PCI ID)
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+A __PCI ID__ is a '__P__eripheral __C__omponent __I__nterconnect' (i.e. a piece of hardware) '__ID__entifier'.
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+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).
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+More info available here: [http://pciids.sourceforge.net/].
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+How to locate what a device is using this database and the PCI ID you have:
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+* Download the _latest_ PCI ID list from sources above.
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+* Get the PCI ID of your piece of hardware.
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+* 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...
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+NOTES: If your GNU/Linux box is showing ('lspci') your hardware as e.g. '0034 Unknown IDE Controller' etc:
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+* Download the latest PCI ID list.
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+* Change to root user 'su root'
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+* Locate current PCI ID file 'slocate pci.ids'
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+* Backup current PCI ID file 'cp /path/to/current/file/pci.ids original.pci.ids'
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+* Make sure our backup worked 'ls -lh' (check existence of copied file, and compare size to original - should be the same)
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+* Delete current pci.ids file (MAKE SURE IT WAS BACKED UP FIRST!) 'rm /path/to/current/file/pci.ids'
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+* Copy latest pci.ids to proper directory 'cp pci.ids /path/to/current/file/'
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+* 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 :)
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+* Profit!!!
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+Misc Notes:
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+* Vendor ID; Product ID; Device ID - e.g. 8086:7e3t:u6i9
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