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.TH BIOSDEVNAME 1 "May 16, 2007"
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.SH NAME
biosdevname \- give BIOS-given name of a device
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B biosdevname
.RI [options]\ [args]...
.SH DESCRIPTION
biosdevname in its simplest form takes a kernel device name as an
argument, and returns the BIOS-given name it "should" be.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-i, \-\-interface
Treat [args] as ethernet devs
.TP
.B \-d, \-\-debug
Enable debugging
.TP
.B \-n, \-\-nosort
Don't sort the PCI device list breadth-first
.TP
.B \-\-policy \fI[kernelnames|all_ethN|all_names|embedded_ethN_slots_names]
.SH SEE ALSO
.br
http://linux.dell.com/files/biosdevname/
.SH AUTHOR
biosdevname was written by  Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
.PP
This manual page was written by Rudy Gevaert <Rudy.Gevaert@UGent.be>,
for the Debian project (but may be used by others).