Re: Association between eth0 and 3c59x...

["roylo" <roylo@example.com>]

Also to add on top of that; if it is a pci ethernet card you do a cat on
/proc/pci and it will show you the info as well.
and if you have the drivers installed as modules then you can do /sbin/lsmod
as well too



----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Hurman" <kano-tlug@example.com>
To: "Tokyo Linux Users' Group" <tlug@example.com>
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 8:38 PM
Subject: Re: Association between eth0 and 3c59x...


> you can figure it out indirectly by knowing the MAC address of your card.
> then by typing ifconfig you get:
> ifconfig -a
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
> which should match.
>
> also the output of 'dmesg' will tell you
> dmesg | grep eth0
> (same info in /var/adm/messages)
>
> if it is a standard pci card, the contents of /proc/ioports or iomem will
> reveal the card. ifconfig also reports the base address of the card (and
> interrupt) in question.
>
> hope that helps,
>
> Tim.
>
>
> On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Scott M. Stone wrote:
>
> >
> > How can you figure out, by querying the kernel, what ethernet driver is
> > bound, say, to eth0?  shouldn't the kernel keep track of this somewhere?
> > I can't find any ioctl, any system call, etc, that will give me this
> > information.
> >
> > I would think there's some way to ask the kernel, "what driver is giving
> > you eth0" without having to look through dmesg, conf.modules, etc, etc..
> >
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