On 3/28/07, Rajat Jain <rajat.noida.india@xxxxxxxxx
> wrote:
On 3/28/07, Santosh Pradhan < santosh.pradhan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks Erik.
> could you please help me to get the description of a PCI card installed in
> the linux system programmatically.
>
> e.g. i have a NIC card which has the description as
> "Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82546EB Gigabit Ethernet Controller
> (Copper) (rev 01)" as per the output of the "lspci" command.
>
I assume you already know the PCI address (bus / device / function
number) of your PCI device. Read the Vendor ID / Device ID of the PCI
device from /sys/bus/pci/devices/<device PCI address>/*
Once you have the vendor and device ID. You need to look them up in a
file listing the device descriptions (On my system this is pci.ids
file). You can find out the location of this file by locating a line
like following in "strace lspci" output:
open("/usr/share/pci.ids", O_RDONLY) = 4
Thanks,
Rajat
