Network card bring up the server

[ivychung2]

In my server , I use TG3 network card driver , now I will change it to BCOM , and then restart the server , if I want to identify which network card ( TG3 or BCOM ) bring up the server , how can I know it ? ( because the TG3 card have problem so I know to make sure it run with BCOM ) , thx

[Sergejs Svitnevs]

try to execute next command:

# lspci -v |grep Ethernet

lspci is a utility for displaying information about all PCI buses in the system and all devices connected to them.

Regards

[Matti_Kurkela]

If you have the "ethtool" command, "ethtool -i eth0" tells you which driver the card is using and the PCI bus location of the card.

The older Linux distributions might not have the "ethtool" command.

[Stuart Browne]

I think what you need to do is modify either '/etc/modules.conf' or '/etc/modprobe.conf' (depending on whether you're running a 2.4.x or 2.6.x series of kernel), so that the 'alias eth0 tg3' line reads 'alias eth0 bcm....' (whatever the appropriate module is called).

This will use this new driver upon restart.