Find the Network Device Vendor ID (VID)

First find the devices that are connected to the all PCI buses in your system

# lspci

The output should be something similar to:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation X58 I/O Hub to ESI Port (rev 13)

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation X58 I/O Hub PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 13)

00:02.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation X58 I/O Hub PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev 13)

00:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation X58 I/O Hub PCI Express Root Port 3 (rev 13)

00:04.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation X58 I/O Hub PCI Express Root Port 4 (rev 13)

00:05.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation X58 I/O Hub PCI Express Root Port 5 (rev 13)

00:06.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation X58 I/O Hub PCI Express Root Port 6 (rev 13)

00:07.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation X58 I/O Hub PCI Express Root Port 7 (rev 13)

00:08.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation X58 I/O Hub PCI Express Root Port 8 (rev 13)

00:09.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation X58 I/O Hub PCI Express Root Port 9 (rev 13)

00:0a.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation X58 I/O Hub PCI Express Root Port 10 (rev 13)

00:0d.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 343a (rev 13)

00:0d.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 343b (rev 13)

00:0d.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 343c (rev 13)

00:0d.3 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 343d (rev 13)

00:0d.4 Host bridge: Intel Corporation X58 Physical Layer Port 0 (rev 13)

00:0d.5 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Quickpath Interconnect Physical Layer Port 1 (rev 13)

00:0d.6 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 341a (rev 13)

00:0e.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 341c (rev 13)

00:0e.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 341d (rev 13)

00:0e.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 341e (rev 13)

00:0e.3 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 341f (rev 13)

00:0e.4 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 3439 (rev 13)

00:14.0 PIC: Intel Corporation X58 I/O Hub System Management Registers (rev 13)

00:14.1 PIC: Intel Corporation X58 I/O Hub GPIO and Scratch Pad Registers (rev 13)

00:14.2 PIC: Intel Corporation X58 I/O Hub Control Status and RAS Registers (rev 13)

00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1

00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2

00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3

00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6

00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1

00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 90)

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JIB (ICH10) LPC Interface Controller

00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) 4 port SATA IDE Controller

01:03.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc ES1000 (rev 02)

01:04.0 System peripheral: Compaq Computer Corporation Integrated Lights Out Controller (rev 03)

01:04.2 System peripheral: Compaq Computer Corporation Integrated Lights Out  Processor (rev 03)

01:04.4 USB Controller: Hewlett-Packard Company Proliant iLO2 virtual USB controller

01:04.6 IPMI SMIC interface: Hewlett-Packard Company Proliant iLO2 virtual UART

02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 20)

02:00.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 20)

03:00.0 RAID bus controller: Hewlett-Packard Company Smart Array G6 controllers (rev 01)

The network adapters found in the above output are highlighted in yellow. In this particular case it is two Broadcom Ethernet controllers. To get the Vendor ID (VID) and the Device ID (DID) of these controllers, use the following command:

# lspci -n | grep x:x

The output is:

00:00.0 0600: 8086:3406 (rev 13)

00:01.0 0604: 8086:3408 (rev 13)

00:02.0 0604: 8086:3409 (rev 13)

00:03.0 0604: 8086:340a (rev 13)

00:04.0 0604: 8086:340b (rev 13)

00:05.0 0604: 8086:340c (rev 13)

00:06.0 0604: 8086:340d (rev 13)

00:07.0 0604: 8086:340e (rev 13)

00:08.0 0604: 8086:340f (rev 13)

00:09.0 0604: 8086:3410 (rev 13)

00:0a.0 0604: 8086:3411 (rev 13)

00:0d.0 0600: 8086:343a (rev 13)

00:0d.1 0600: 8086:343b (rev 13)

00:0d.2 0600: 8086:343c (rev 13)

00:0d.3 0600: 8086:343d (rev 13)

00:0d.4 0600: 8086:3418 (rev 13)

00:0d.5 0600: 8086:3419 (rev 13)

00:0d.6 0600: 8086:341a (rev 13)

00:0e.0 0600: 8086:341c (rev 13)

00:0e.1 0600: 8086:341d (rev 13)

00:0e.2 0600: 8086:341e (rev 13)

00:0e.3 0600: 8086:341f (rev 13)

00:0e.4 0600: 8086:3439 (rev 13)

00:14.0 0800: 8086:342e (rev 13)

00:14.1 0800: 8086:3422 (rev 13)

00:14.2 0800: 8086:3423 (rev 13)

00:1d.0 0c03: 8086:3a34

00:1d.1 0c03: 8086:3a35

00:1d.2 0c03: 8086:3a36

00:1d.3 0c03: 8086:3a39

00:1d.7 0c03: 8086:3a3a

00:1e.0 0604: 8086:244e (rev 90)

00:1f.0 0601: 8086:3a18

00:1f.2 0101: 8086:3a20

01:03.0 0300: 1002:515e (rev 02)

01:04.0 0880: 0e11:b203 (rev 03)

01:04.2 0880: 0e11:b204 (rev 03)

01:04.4 0c03: 103c:3300

01:04.6 0c07: 103c:3302

02:00.0 0200: 14e4:1639 (rev 20)

02:00.1 0200: 14e4:1639 (rev 20)

03:00.0 0104: 103c:323a (rev 01)

The Vendor ID (VID) and Device ID (DID) are highlighted in green. In the above output VID=14e4 and DID=1639.

References

• PCIdatabase.com

You can find here PCI vendor list by name or by device ID, and other resources on the PCI bus.

Source: www.pcidatabase.com

• lspci(8) - Linux man page

• PCI configuration space