Differences between version 11 and predecessor to the previous major change of CategoryPciDevice.
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| Newer page: | version 11 | Last edited on Thursday, July 26, 2007 11:36:09 pm | by ElroyLiddington | Revert |
| Older page: | version 8 | Last edited on Thursday, July 26, 2007 11:19:57 pm | by ElroyLiddington | Revert |
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@
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'.
@@ -25,11 +25,30 @@
* 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!!!
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