On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Denis Heidtmann <denis.heidtm...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >
Run lsmod if the driver is built as a module it will show up and you can remove it from the running system with rmmod $module_name (note, it doesn't physically remove it, just until it's reloaded either by you or by a reboot) Drew- _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
