Informations about unknown/not detected PCI devices

Support knowledgebase (jd_pci_unkown)
Applies to

SuSE Linux: All versions

Symptom:

One or several PCI devices are not supported. A quick look into the SuSE hardware database (CDB) doesn't helps either.

Cause:

At most the harware is very new or it's hardware with a small circulation.

To check the hardware support SuSE needs some suitable information - this is the unambigious identification of the device:
Each PCI devices' manufacturer has a registered identification, these are both 'vendor ID' and 'device ID'. Additionally there should also be more information.

Matter of concern:

To decide whether hardware is supported we need the suitable information.
Please provide that needed information!

Procedure:

There are two ways to act:

Possible errors:


Keywords: PCI, UNKNOWN, DEVICE, VENDOR, HWINFO

Categories: Hardware , Kernel

SDB-jd_pci_unkown, Copyright SuSE Linux AG, Nürnberg, Germany - Version: 05. May 2000
SuSE Linux AG - Last generated: 01. Aug 2002 by jd (sdb_gen 1.40.0)