netdev - Re: Fwd: wrong VENDOR

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Date:	Sun, 02 Oct 2011 16:14:34 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Christian Vasquez Perales <christian.vasquez.perales@...il.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fwd: wrong VENDOR_ID 10ac

On Sun, 2011-10-02 at 06:31 +0100, Christian Vasquez Perales wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> May be you can help me, I have bought 2 identical trendnet TEG-PCITXR
> gigabit cards, and my centos has detected automatically just 1 of the
> 2 cards and this card is working fine with the driver r8169, but the
> other is not recognized,
> 
> As per my investigation, the VENDOR_ID in the wrong card is 10ac, and
> it must to be 10ec (according the PCI database), please see the
> attached with the output from lspci and setpci,
> 
> Could you give me some ideas? or do you know how to change the
> Vendor_ID in a network card?
[...]

There's no generic way to do this.  I suggest you return the faulty card
for a refund/replacement; there is quite possibly more wrong with it
than this one-bit error.

Ben.

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