On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 19:32:00 +1100 (EDT), Ian Manners wrote:

>Is this what you mean ?
>http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/index.shtml

I believe he's talking about the Vendor and Device ID's as reported on
the boot screen, not the MAC address strings reported by NICs...

Intel, for example, is 0x8086 for vendor ID, while the device ID would
identify which of their parts it was, and the Class ID (I think that's
what it's called) identifies the function of the part, such as "RAID
controller", "video card", or "USB hub".

>
>>  Who creates/assigns the vendor/device ID strings that are used by
the folks that do 
>the ndiswrapper?  I have contacted D-Link to ask for that data for the
DLW-G520 wifi nic 
>and they act like I'm speaking in tongues.  At first they tried to just
blow me off by the old 
>standby of "unsupported OS" but I fired back that the ID
string has nothing to do with 
>platform and incidentally these other platforms exist even if they
choose to ignore them 
>and the folks using them tend to be the power users to whom everyone in their 
>community turns for advice so you will be on the good side or the maird
list depending 
>on actions, ignor-ance notwithstanding and they wrote me back saying
"D-Link support 
>does not have this info"

Yeah, it's like pulling teeth.  I called them because their DGE-530T
card apparently used a certain chip which has OS/2 drivers... I was
transferred to four different techs before I got the answer I wanted...
and so, I picked up the part from my distributor... and found it had an
entirely DIFFERENT manufacturer's chip on it, and was NOT supported. 
Needless to say, I chalked it up to another case of poor communication
and customer service, then fired off a terse eMail to D-Link Reseller
Support to tell them off.

-Derek

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