[ale] Network Vendor String

[crawford.rainwater at linux-etc.com (Crawford Rainwater)]

On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 11:49 -0400, ale-request at ale.org wrote:
> Say I am writing a little script to obtain hardware inventory on my
> linux
> system.  I want the vendor string of the network card(s).  I know
> there
> has to be a way to get it because the installer reads the information
> as
> does network-configuration tools.
> 
> I have looked around in /proc with no success.  Is there a way to get
> that
> information?
> 
> Regards,
> Jeff 

Though this is just the chipset vs. manufacture information, "lspci"
would return similar information as well.  A simple example of my laptop
has the following results:

0000:02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82573L Gigabit
Ethernet Controller

HTH.

--- Crawford