I remember that article well - they handled the situation very poorly
Vendor and Device ID fiddling is well-known in the Windows world - people have been editing the .inf files for years to install chipmaker video drivers onto laptops with weird IDs etc.
When signed-only drivers arrived in 64-bit Windows, it all got more difficult - but it is possible to change the hardware IDs yourself, on some devices, by reflashing firmware, so that you can use a different signed driver.
haha, I bought a bunch of fake USB to serial
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, was scary hahah
all is possible, when someone know on how to flash the hardware, many ghost factories in china
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and working officially on the real factory that produce intel products
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. one beauty working real and ghost area.
I pull for newest PCI ID on linux
1521 I350 Gigabit Network Connection
1028 0602 Gigabit 2P I350-t LOM
1028 1f60 Gigabit 4P I350-t rNDC
1028 1f62 Gigabit 4P X540/I350 rNDC
1028 ff9a Gigabit 4P X710/I350 rNDC
103c 17d1 Ethernet 1Gb 4-port 366FLR Adapter
103c 2003 Ethernet 1Gb 2-port 367i Adapter
103c 2226 Ethernet 1Gb 1-port 364i Adapter
103c 337f Ethernet 1Gb 2-port 361i Adapter
103c 3380 Ethernet 1Gb 4-port 366i Adapter
103c 339e Ethernet 1Gb 2-port 361T Adapter
103c 8157 Ethernet 1Gb 4-port 366T Adapter
108e 7b16 Quad Port GbE PCIe 2.0 ExpressModule, UTP
108e 7b18 Quad Port GbE PCIe 2.0 Low Profile Adapter, UTP
1093 7648 PCIe-8237R Ethernet Adapter
1093 7649 PCIe-8236 Ethernet Adapter
1093 76b1 PCIe-8237R-S Ethernet Adapter
1093 775b PCIe-8237 Ethernet Adapter
10a9 802a UV2-BaseIO dual-port GbE
17aa 1074 ThinkServer I350-T4 AnyFabric
17aa 4005 I350 Gigabit Network Connection
8086 0001 Ethernet Server Adapter I350-T4
8086 0002 Ethernet Server Adapter I350-T2
8086 00a1 Ethernet Server Adapter I350-T4
8086 00a2 Ethernet Server Adapter I350-T2
8086 5001 Ethernet Server Adapter I350-T4
8086 5002 Ethernet Server Adapter I350-T2
as I understand, kernel only care of vendorID (8086)
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roduct ID (1521), the rest are for debunging and compatibility..
three are 4 I350 product ID: 1521-1524
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