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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:


(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 '__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).

More info available here: [http://pciids.sourceforge.net/].

How to locate what a device is using this database and the PCI ID you have:

* Download the _latest_ PCI ID list from sources above.

* Get the PCI ID of your piece of hardware.

* 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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Last edited on Thursday, August 2, 2007 2:03:21 pm by JohnMcPherson
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