If you have a motherboard XYZ and want to find the vendor and device of the ethernet device, try a search like this: XYZ ethernet vendor device. In Linux, read the "man" page for the command by typing: man lspci If you do not have Windows on your computer, you can also use Linux. If you do not find a Details tab in Device Manager, then read this. The vendor id is the 4 characters after the letters "VEN_" and the device id is the 4 characters after the letters "DEV_". Click the Details tab and read the vendor id and device id. Find your device and get Properties for that device. Windows - Go to Windows and open Device Manager. If you cannot find the values there, then you should try reading them in Windows. You may have to click on the device in the right pane and read the values at bottom right. You should see a vendor id and a device id. You can also access it through "About This Mac" by clicking the "More Info." button.Ĭlick on the device type (PCI, USB) in the left pane and find the device in the right pane.
System Profiler is found in the Utilities folder of OSX. Then it uses its list to see if a match exists, and if it does, it binds the kext (driver) to that device.
When the computer is booted, OSX quizzes the ROM on each device to get its vendor and device id's.
OSX keeps a list of all vendor id's and device id's that are contained in the kexts installed in the system.
The actual vendor id is the 4 characters "8086". Each of these two values is made up of 4 hexadecimal (hex) characters.įor instance, the vendor id of Intel is 0x8086, where the leading "0x" identifies this as a hex value. The unique identifier is made up of an industry-assigned code for the vendor (manufacturer) of the device and a serial number for that device which is assigned by the vendor. The operating system uses this identifier to bind a driver to that device. The following explains what vendor and device id's are and how to find and use them in your installation.Įvery device that makes up a computer needs to have a unique identifier.
0 kommentar(er)
