PCI table info and how to update drivers required

Wang Steven wangwenhao025 at hotmail.com
Mon May 24 05:42:12 UTC 2004


Dear Steve:

Thanks to your intense answer.  Now I still have one Q left.  What do the 
files named "pcitable" work?  In other words, When will the files be used?

Thanks. 
Steven

>From: Steve <steve at focb.co.nz>
>Reply-To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list at redhat.com>
>To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list at redhat.com>
>Subject: Re: PCI table info and how to update drivers required
>Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 16:42:50 +1200 (NZST)
>
>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,
>
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>Steve.
>
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