Comments on: Sources for hardware drivers http://tips.vlaurie.com/2006/06/sources-for-drivers/ News, commentary and tips for safer and easier computing Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:15:10 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: dean http://tips.vlaurie.com/2006/06/sources-for-drivers/comment-page-1/#comment-573 dean Sun, 25 Jun 2006 03:05:59 +0000 http://tips.vlaurie.com/2006/sources-for-drivers/#comment-573 Sometimes you are faced with the prospect of installing a new OS on a PC for which there is no documentation available. This can make it difficult to positively identify certain hardware items, particularly things like network cards and modems. For such a circumstance, the program Unknown Devices is eminently useful. The program is a free download and is available here: http://www.halfdone.com/Development/UnknownDevices/ No installation is required - just run the program. Unknown Devices uses a large text file as a database and is included with the download, but it is recommended that you obtain the latest version here: http://members.datafast.net.au/dft0802/downloads/pcidevs.txt This link is also shown on the Unknown Devices download page. You should right-click on the link and select "Save Target As..." Otherwise, the browser will merely load the text file for viewing rather than downloading it. If that happens, you may select all the text, copy it to the clipboard, paste it into Notepad and save it as pcidevs.txt. Sometimes you are faced with the prospect of installing a new OS on a PC for which there is no documentation available. This can make it difficult to positively identify certain hardware items, particularly things like network cards and modems.

For such a circumstance, the program Unknown Devices is eminently useful. The program is a free download and is available here:

http://www.halfdone.com/Development/UnknownDevices/

No installation is required – just run the program. Unknown Devices uses a large text file as a database and is included with the download, but it is recommended that you obtain the latest version here:

http://members.datafast.net.au/dft0802/downloads/pcidevs.txt

This link is also shown on the Unknown Devices download page. You should right-click on the link and select “Save Target As…” Otherwise, the browser will merely load the text file for viewing rather than downloading it. If that happens, you may select all the text, copy it to the clipboard, paste it into Notepad and save it as pcidevs.txt.

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