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.

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 'Peripheral Component Interconnect' (i.e. a piece of hardware) 'IDentifier'.

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/'
• Profit!!!

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