Sathya Rangaswamy forced the electrons to say:
> what surprises me is RH does it during the install. I wonder why they have not
> bundled that code as a standalone utility that a sysadmin can use.
> Thanks for all your responses
It does it only for PCI cards. For ISA cards, it still asks "Which driver
should I try?"
It does this by looking into /proc/bus/pci/devices where all PCI devices are
registered by the kernel, and by comparing with an hardcoded database. For
example, in my computer, the line
0058 10ec8029 c 00006801 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
corresponds to my ethernet card, 0x10ec being the manufacturer's (Realtek?)
code number, and 0x8029 being his code number for this particular card.
Binand
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