Identify PCI and USB Wired and Wireless Driver in Linux

Posted by blackMOREOps on Aug 20, 2014 8:14 AM EDT
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This guide shows how you can identify PCI Driver Chipset Information on Linux. Often users troll different forums and blogs to find out they can identify which driver their PCI or USB device is using. This guide applies to all possible scenarios

Examples of PCI devices

Identify PCI driver for Processor – CPU Identify PCI driver for Motherboards Identify PCI driver for Communication controllers Identify PCI driver for Network devices Identify PCI driver for USB devices Identify PCI driver for USB controllers Identify PCI driver for High Definition Audio Controller Identify PCI driver for VGA or graphics cards Identify PCI driver for Memory (RAM) Identify PCI driver for Thermal Control Registers Identify PCI driver for Ethernet devices Identify PCI driver for DVD R/W devices Identify PCI driver for Blueray devices Identify PCI driver for CDROM devices

In short, any device drivers can be identified that is using plugged into a PCI slot.

This guide will work for any Linux distributions, namely -

Linux Mint Ubuntu Debian GNU/Linux Mageia / Mandriva Fedora openSUSE / SUSE Linux Enterprise Arch Linux CentOS / Red Hat Enterprise Linux PCLinuxOS Slackware Linux Puppy Linux Kali Linux (my distro ;) )

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