On Nov 6, 2007 11:08 PM, R P Herrold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, David Cooper wrote: > > > I don't know how to tell the system to use them upon boot. It's a > > broadcom nic vendor 0x14e4 device 0x1713. Is there a way to insert > > this info in grub (as an "append" command to the initrd) and tell it > > to load the needed driver when it see's that string? Am I heading in > > the right direction? > > Examine: update-pciids > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ rpm -ql pciutils | grep upd > /sbin/update-pciids > /usr/share/man/man8/update-pciids.8.gz > > which is a helper script for just this purpose. What you seek > may already be present; if not, you can add more by hand to > taste. > > then a quick reboot, and HW detection, and all should be > running. > > -- Russ Herrold > > _______________________________________________ > rhelv5-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list >
Well, it seems that update-pciids is just a script to grab the latest pci-ids (which isn't possible anyway, no network) even if it was, from what I've read the pci.ids file is just for matching vendor ids etc. to human readable names. I looked through the file and it seems to have nothing to do with drivers being loaded for the system. Thanks for trying to point me in the right direction. I did see a ref to setpci, so maybe that's the ticket. I'll write back when I know more. However, I did see that 5.1 is now final....so I might just go with that. I do want to know how though. _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
