PCI IDs for wireless cards

David Gibson david at gibson.dropbear.id.au
Sun Oct 7 12:19:42 EST 2001


On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 10:45:06AM +1000, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 02:44:58AM +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 07:51:56PM +1000, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> > > According to man 5 pcmcia, each pcmcia card has a pair of PCI ids, like
> > > normal pci cards.
> > > 
> > > Anyone know how to find these numbers?
> > 
> > cardctl ident
> 
> Socket 1:
>   product info: "NETGEAR MA401 Wireless PC", "Card", "Version 01.00", ""
>   manfid: 0x0156, 0x0002
>   function: 6 (network)
> 
> manfid == PCI ids?
> 
> OK, I was just misunderstanding the man page then. I thought it implied that
> they had an ID you could look up in pci.ids.

Cardbus cards might, since I understand that Cardbus is pretty much
hotplug PCI.  Older PCMCIA on the other hand is not.

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