Can I check which driver the LiveCD is using for ntwrk card?

Stu L Tissimus

Well, I'm configuring Love-Sources 2.6.7-rc3-r2 (or is it rc2-r3?), and I don't know which option to enable for my network card. Is there a way to check? Does dmesg possibly show which driver it used?
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Lajasha · Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2004 5:33 pm Post subject:

ok maybe im missing something but could you not do an lsmod if it was a module or an lspci then google/forum search it?

Like I said though sorry if I misunderstood what you wanted.
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Red_Weasel · n00b Joined: 11 Jun 2003 Posts: 35 Location: Portland, OR

Couple of ways you can go about this. `dmesg` will display your card type IF your kernel was configured for it, either by compiled in or module. Your best bet would probably to use `lspci` (from the pciutils e-build) to identify specifically what card you are using. Also, from the LiveCD, you can `lsmod` to see what modules were loaded. With a list of modules, you can then use the "Help" to view all the different network devices in your kernel and read what module is created.
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