Apr 26, 2010 So here’s how to do it yourself in a few easy steps first, right-click My Computer and choose properties. Then, go to the Hardware tab, and pick Device Manager. Navigate to your unknown device, double-click it and then pick the Details tab. Find the Hardware Ids entry, and look for the most detailed entry. Lspci is a command for displaying information about all PCI buses in the system and all devices connected to them. Lspci is useful when you want to diagnose problems or when you want to report bugs related to pci devices. Report PCI devices bugs. See how PCI devices connected to PCI bus.

Spike on IRC was commenting about how much of a pain in the arse it is to track down drivers for unknown hardware on Windows, and how easy it is under Linux using lspci. I sat and thought about it – lspci can’t possibly pluck hardware strings from nowhere, there has to be some sort of database… and there is, and best of all there’s a web-based front end to it.

So here’s how to do it yourself in a few easy steps… first, right-click My Computer and choose properties. Then, go to the Hardware tab, and pick Device Manager.

Lspci Windows 7

/saa7130-tv-card-driver.html. Navigate to your unknown device, double-click it and then pick the Details tab. Find the Hardware Ids entry, and look for the most detailed entry. My shitty SiS network adaptor’s is “PCIVEN_1039&DEV_0900“.

Lspci Equivalent On Windows

Navigate to the PCI Devices database in a browser on an internet-connected computer. In my case, I’m looking for vendor ID 1039, so I’ll click “1” and scroll down… and I’ll find the Vendor “Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]”, which is to be expected. Click into the Vendor entry and look for the Device ID.

That should hopefully give you the correct Google-snacks to track down a driver for the hardware. 😀