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"Eric S. Raymond" wrote:
> Right now, neither lsmod nor the boot time messages  necessarily give you that
> information.  lsmod only works if the driver is in fact a module.  My
> /var/log/dmesg contains no message from the NIC on my motherboard.  And
> going from the driver to the config symbol isn't trivial even if you *have*
> the lsmod or dmesg information.

For network cards one needs only to issue the ETHTOOL_GDRVINFO ioctl to
find out what hardware is associated with an ethernet interface.

	Jeff


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