Alan, On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 22:34, Alan Bartlett <[email protected]> wrote: > On 26 August 2010 10:19, Markus Neteler <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I hoped to find the NetXen driver in SL 5.5 but it does not seem to be in >> Linux fep 2.6.18-194.11.1.el5 #1 SMP Tue Aug 10 16:39:28 EDT 2010 >> x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux >> >> The network card is this: >> >> lspci | grep NetX >> 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708 >> Gigabit Ethernet (rev 12) >> 07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708 >> Gigabit Ethernet (rev 12) >> 08:00.0 Ethernet controller: NetXen Incorporated NXB-10GCX4 10-Gigabit >> Ethernet PCIe Adapter with CX4 copper interface (rev 25) > > Markus, > > The most precise way of determining exactly which driver is required > for a particular device is via the Vendor:Device ID Pairing (a.k.a. > the device fingerprint).
I see... > In you particular case, above, I would be interested in seeing the > output returned by -- > > /sbin/lspci -n | grep -E '03:00.0|07:00.0|08:00.0' Here it is: /sbin/lspci -n | grep -E '03:00.0|07:00.0|08:00.0' 03:00.0 0200: 14e4:164c (rev 12) 07:00.0 0200: 14e4:164c (rev 12) 08:00.0 0200: 4040:0002 (rev 25) > I would then use the technique, as shown in FAQ #4 at > http://elrepo.org/tiki/FAQ -- I didn't find those IDs here http://elrepo.org/tiki/DeviceIDs > grep -i VendorID /lib/modules/*/modules.alias | grep -i DeviceID [nete...@fep ~]$ cat /lib/modules/*/modules.alias | grep -i '14e4:164c\|14e4:164c\|4040:0002' [nete...@fep ~]$ > Hope this helps. I assume (if I got it right) that the use of the HP vendor SRPM is ok. thanks, Markus
