RE: NIC identification
If you want to find the vendor of any piece of eletrical equipment and you
can find the FCC code on it then go to http://www.fcc.gov/oet/fccid/ and
type that number in.
Works every time
Robin
-----Original Message-----
From: Sebastiaan [mailto:sebas@sacred-key.org]
Sent: 17 January 2001 16:17
To: John Griffiths
Cc: Casey Webster; debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: NIC identification
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, John Griffiths wrote:
> At 11:38 PM 1/16/2001 -0600, Casey Webster wrote:
> >if its netware approved you might try the ne2k driver, that thing works
> >for a lot of cards with that sticker, also if you can figure out the
> >card's MAC address (in the form of xx:xx:xx:yy:yy:yy and often on the
card
> >somewhere) then search google for a MAC address to vendor converter and
> >pop on the xx:xx:xx from the mac addr and it will give you the vendor of
> >the card and then you can check thier website for the model number and
try
> >and figure out what driver to use
> >
> >-Casey
> well the things we learn..
>
> any ideas what the MAC might look like? where it may be?
It looks like a serie of hexadecimal numbers (xx and yy are he in the
example above). It can be found in the card's eeprom(not bootprom), but to
get there you should know the cardtype, and that is the problem (I
beliove)
Greetz,
Sebastiaan
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