Re: hardware detection
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 05:15:32PM +0100, Thierry Laronde wrote:
> I don't if you have already looked at that, but there are already some
> scripts using the informations in /proc to find the kind of hardware
> installed.
>
> There are several scripts using Perl, and that's not usable on floppy.
> This one uses only Bourne Shell.
>
> But the question is ? How do you want to use the information collected ?
FWIW, one can find a mapping of PCI Vendor/Product IDs to driver names.
Worth using it for "user-friendly" autodetection. Just search for
`linux-kernel-ids' to find some.
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