topic Re: How can I know what model of the nic integrated with my hp server in Operating System - Linux

How can I know what model of the nic integrated with my hp server

haha — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 21:00:16 GMT

for example
I have a dl360G4
I found three type network driver update(e1000、bcm5700、bnx2) from the site of hp support
which one I can use

Re: How can I know what model of the nic integrated with my hp server

Arunvijai_4 — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:00:10 GMT

Use the most recent one. It will have all bug fixes reported till date and enhancements.

-Arun

Re: How can I know what model of the nic integrated with my hp server

Gopi Sekar — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 01:05:46 GMT

I am not sure whether I understand your question correctly: Are you saying you found three drivers updates (e1000, bcm5700, bnx2) for your dl360 G4 hardware?

If so then I would recommend to update all of them regardless of whether you are using that particular NIC or not. This will help in the future when you want to use the spare NIC.

To find out what driver you are currently using check the 'lsmod' output, it should list the drivers currently loaded on the kernel, one of the above should be listed (most likely all three would be listed).

Regards,
Gopi

Re: How can I know what model of the nic integrated with my hp server

Vitaly Karasik_1 — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 09:39:46 GMT

usually you'll some some info in "dmesg" output.
AFAIK, DL360G4 is coming with 2 Broadcom NICs on motherboard, so you should use bcm5700.

Re: How can I know what model of the nic integrated with my hp server

dirk dierickx — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 02:52:39 GMT

update the kernel of your distrubution to the latest one available, use the driver supplied with that update.

Re: How can I know what model of the nic integrated with my hp server

rick jones — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 11:38:41 GMT

In addition to the output of dmesg, you can also try lspci with various options to control the relative verbosity of the output.

Re: How can I know what model of the nic integrated with my hp server

haha — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 20:46:25 GMT

I know my dl360g4's nic type is hp nc7782(update driver is bcm5700) now by viewing the server's bios setting(press "F9" when server is rebooting)
But I don't know is there other nic model(using driver bnx2 or e1000) integrated with the server(dl360g4)
Another question:
how can I know the nic model integrated with my server under linux without rebooting it
Command "lsmod" can't do that
when I type "lsmod", I can see the nic's driver is tg3

Re: How can I know what model of the nic integrated with my hp server

Vitaly Karasik_1 — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 01:02:05 GMT

>how can I know the nic model integrated >with my server under linux without >rebooting it

by looking in /var/log/messages

>Command "lsmod" can't do that
>when I type "lsmod", I can see the nic's >driver is tg3

it means you have Broadcom NIC - tg3 is just another driver for the same NIC.

Re: How can I know what model of the nic integrated with my hp server

Gopi Sekar — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 03:10:21 GMT

you can see the ethernet controller model by either doing 'cat /proc/pci' file or running 'lspci -vv' command as root.

This should give list of ethernet controllers on your system, IRQ and IO used by them and other related information.

Regards,
Gopi