Does your ifconfig show you IRQs? (Mine does) If it does, you can cross-match them.

Hi Jesse!

On Fri, 07 Sep 2001, Jesse Erdmann wrote:

> Jim Crumley wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 11:20:55AM -0500, Jesse Erdmann wrote:
> > > Does anyone know a way to programtically tell what module a NIC is
> > > using, or alternatively find out which NICs are using a particular
> > > module?
> > >
> > > For instance, say you have a machine with two eepro100s and a 3c509b.  I
> > > need a way to determine which, if any are using the 3c509b module.  I
> > > don't care if it's a tool like ifconfig or some ioctl that I could whip
> > > up a C proggie to use.
> > 
> > Is /proc/modules or /proc/ioports enough info?
> 
> /proc/modules tells me how many devices are using a specific module, but
> it doesn't tell me which ones.  I really need to know something like
> ethX is using moduleX.  I need to send an ioctl with the name of the
> device (eth0, eth1, etc).  If I use eth1 when eth1 is using some other
> module, that ioctl might mean something very different to the module
> eth1 is using.  That could cause bad things to happen.
> 
> -- 
> 
> Jesse Erdmann 
> Engineer 
> Secure Computing Corp.
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