On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 7:57 PM, Larry Brigman <larry.brig...@gmail.com> wrote:
....
>
> If you are seeing the list of negotiation rates drop in failed mode
> then to be able to
> check this while the system is up will require the network to be down
> and at least the associated
> network driver for the card to be rmmod to allow the driver
> initialization to be done again.
>
> To figure out the driver for the card look for eth0 in /etc/modprobe.conf
>
> This is a nice place for a one off script to do the down up test loop.
/etc/modprobe.conf does not exist. The man page says to look in all
the files in /etc/modprobe.d There are no eth0 entries in any of
those files. modprobe -c | grep eth0 comes up empty.
I had previously posted this:
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200]
Ethernet (rev a2)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 82f2
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 2300
Memory at fcf7c000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
I/O ports at c880 [size=8]
Memory at fcf7f400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Memory at fcf7f000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask+ 64bit+ Queue=0/4
Enable+
Capabilities: [6c] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping Enable+ Fixed+
Kernel driver in use: forcedeth
Kernel modules: forcedeth
This tells me the driver name. It is not clear to me what to do with
this information.
-Denis
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