[CS-FSLUG] Switching to linux

[Tim Young]

The digital ID is actually a combination of a number of items.  That is what
makes the task of probing your hardware and determining what you have such a
joy.  :)  There are certain combinations of things that are coded into each
hardware.  Vendor IDs, Device ID, Device names, Functions (sound, bridge,
network device, etc.).  Tools that probe your hardware find out all the things
that your particular piece of hardware have hardcoded into it, and then
compares it to it's database.  So it is not really one large number or
anything, but rather a series of strings.  If you can find your device (through
isapnp, lspnp, lspci, or one of those), you copy as many of the strings as you
can (minus the IRQ and stuff that changes per machine), paste them into google,
and see what happens...

	- Tim

Jukka Y wrote:
> 
> On Monday 20 September 2004 16:24, Tim Young wrote:
> > If the computer is put together by a friend, the first thing to try is the
> > knoppix CD.  Then, if that fails, does anyone know where kudzu puts the
> > hwconf file on Mandrake?  (do "locate hwconf")  Or you can use "lspnp", or
> > "isapnp" to list various devices on your system.  If you have no idea what
> > *thing* is in your computer, they each have a digital ID that you can
> > search for on the Internet to see if there is a driver for it.
> >
> > If all else fails, attach the dump from those programs and send it back to
> > us.
> >
> >       - Tim
> 
> I would like to to add "lspci" (it seems to give a long listing about
> "bridges", "interfaces", "controllers" etc..). I had not heard before about
> hardware's digital ID's. How do I find them? Do they look like some long
> serial-numbers?
> 
> Blessings,
> Jukka
> 
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