Hi Dan, You can identify the hardware a driver is able to support with the modinfo(8) command. For example,
$ modinfo fm10k filename: /lib/modules/4.4.14-200.fc22.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k.ko.xz version: 0.15.2-k license: GPL description: Intel(R) Ethernet Switch Host Interface Driver author: Intel Corporation, <linux.n...@intel.com> srcversion: 21FB5F03E90C1AE16837B51 alias: pci:v00008086d000015A5sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v00008086d000015A4sv*sd*bc*sc*i* depends: ptp intree: Y vermagic: 4.4.14-200.fc22.x86_64 SMP mod_unload (I use 'fm10k' because the hardware support list is short.) See the lines which begin with "alias:". They show the PCI IDs [http://pciids.sourceforge.net/] of the hardware that this driver can drive. There is probably a 'pci.ids' file somewhere under /usr/share in your distro, too. This file is used to map the numeric PCI ID info to human-readable strings. So, the 'fm10k' driver will manage a device from Vendor "8086" (Intel), with Device ID of "0x15a5" or "0x15a4". Some drivers will also use the SubVendorID (sv) and Sub- VendorDeviceID (sd), but we see this driver doesn't care, as it displays the "*" wildcard match. You will see that the 'e1000e' and 'igb' drivers are (generally) for 1Gbps NICs, 'ixgbe' is for 10Gbps, and 'i40e' is for 25/40Gbps hardware. Intel drivers with names ending in "...vf" are virtual-function drivers used with SR-IOV virtualization. (Typically supporting virtual machines running on a host virtualization platform.) Use the lscpi(8) command to find the actual numeric values for Vendor and Device IDs on your adapter. You should read the man page and experiment with the different options to find all of the information it will display and also how to limit the output to what is useful for your purposes. For my RHEL-7.x and SLES-12.x systems, I find # lspci -nn -v | grep net to be extremely useful in identifying my Intel Ethernet devices. - Don > -----Original Message----- > From: Dan Zulaica [mailto:dan.zulaica...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, April 23, 2018 11:37 PM > To: Fujinaka, Todd <todd.fujin...@intel.com> > Cc: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] e1000 driver compile > > Hi, > > The driver got compiled, but did not work. I went back to the 10.04 > kernel download from kernel.org. It compiled and I got the environment > setup based on the README instructions. Then compiled the exgbe > driver, which I though was the latest? Anyway that did not work, and I > tried a e1000e download. That one compiled and worked. I can also use > the vendor's Eclipse IDE. > > Is ixgbe the latest update to e1000e. It is the green download icon, > e1000e appear to be older version numbers. > > Anyway, thanks for the help. Greatly appreciated. > Dan > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ E1000-devel mailing list E1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel To learn more about Intel® Ethernet, visit http://communities.intel.com/community/wired
