PCI table info and how to update drivers required

[Steve]

On Mon, 24 May 2004, Wang Steven wrote:

> Deal all:
> 
> Our project requires updating drivers on almost all Redhat platforms, 
> including Als, Wls, Els and others.  Would you offer me a universal 
> solution, or where to get it?  Thanks a lot!

As far as I am aware, this is what up2date is supposed to provide, 
however, if you want to have custom packages (drivers?) then you may want 
to look into something like autorpm (I think it was called this) that was 
a small perl script that you could point to a different location (local 
package server) to get updates from.

> 
> Besides that, i needs detailed introduction of PCI table.  Glad to receive 
> direction or guidance from any of us.  Thanks a lot!

Look at lspci, this should give you detailed information on your PCI 
devices, and with the -vv and -x options (lspci -vvx) you should get more 
information that you probably need. The manual page may help more (man 
lspci)

Otherwise, if you are after information about the PCI standards, then you 
may want to search on google for pci standards (or something similar) - if 
you are after how PCI works in general then try
 
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/pci.htm 

HTH,

-- 
Steve.