Re: Association between eth0 and 3c59x...

["Scott M. Stone" <sstone@example.com>]

On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, roylo wrote:

> 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

but I need the association between the two.  I know I can tell what
modules are installed, what hardware exists, and what ethernet interfaces
exist, but there's nothing to tell me, if I have 3 ethernet cards in the
computer, which one is eth0, which is eth1, which is eth2, etc.

> 
> 
> 
> ----- 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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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com>
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