seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach) writes:

> So, I was adding code for the Symbol Spectrum24 to if_wi.c, and I wanted to
> add it to pcmciadevs.  I noticed that their vendor ID (0x14d) was already
> attached to "Simple Technologies", and there was even a product ID in there
> for a "Spectrum 24".

Yeah, and there's also a note that they're using the same ID. I've
seend that before, too; there was some annoyance with some
semi-no-name PCMCIA sound card that was using the same vendor and
product ID as a Fujitsu Ethernet device.

> I'm pretty sure the company is named "symbol", not "simple"... is there a
> canonical source from which this was derived?

Well, both companies certainly exist.

I believe (but do not know for certain) that there is an official
registry of vendor IDs, maintained by the PCMCIAssociation but that
it's not public. I doubt that there's any such list for product IDs.

        - Nathan