[BusyBox] [announce] New Applet -- miscutils/detect (pci detectionj utility)

Nick Fedchik fnm at fusion.ukrsat.com
Mon Mar 3 00:44:05 UTC 2003


On Mon, 2 Mar 2003, John van Vlaanderen wrote:

>Hi, I am very interested in this as I am enhancing the Devil Linux OS.
>We are interested in ethernet card detection only, for the time being.
Standard way to detect NIC is to probe it by network modules.
Also I placed in my TODO to port diag-ether tools to busybox (mii-diag and
card-specific tools).
I think it should not be included into BusyBox cvs in the near time, because
this tolls has relatively "huge" size and isn't widelly used.

>How would you use this ??  Is there a built in database ??

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Nick Fedchik, FNM3-RIPE(UANIC)
Internet Dept./ISP UkrSat, Kiev, Ukraine



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