[vox-tech] eth0 troubles
Rick Moen
rick at linuxmafia.com
Tue Aug 10 17:55:53 PDT 2004
Just to clarify, lest I mislead:
> Your running kernel may not recognise what PCI device this is,
> because its PCI ID string may not be in your /usr/share/misc/pci.ids
> file. Good news: You can always snarf the latest version of that file
> from http://pciids.sf.net/ .
Updating that file won't actually do anything to add device support per
se -- but it'll cause lspci and similar utilities to display full device
names instead of numeric IDs. On the plus side, the results are usually
a lot more helpful in _finding_ appropriate drivers, thereafter.
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