Finding which driver is in use

abovett · 05-16-2006, 05:33 PM

Can anyone tell me a general way of finding out what driver (i.e. kernel module) is being loaded for a particular device? For example, lspci will list all PCI bus devices, but doesn't show what drivers are loaded for them. I'm looking for a distro-independant method not using any specific GUI's tools.

Thanks

Andy B

nadroj · 05-17-2006, 01:03 AM

check out lsmod. if a module name looks cryptic use 'modinfo <moduleName>' to see details

abovett · 05-17-2006, 06:00 AM

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Originally Posted by nadroj

check out lsmod. if a module name looks cryptic use 'modinfo <moduleName>' to see details

Thanks, but what I'm looking for is a way to directly relate the items shown in the lspci output with the drivers listed by lsmod. modinfo is useful, but doesn't actually tell you which driver has been loaded for a particular device - it's still guesswork based on the names, descriptions and types of devices.

Andy B

nadroj · 05-17-2006, 01:20 PM

right, i missed that sorry.
i dont know who you would do this myself.. ill keep watching hopefully some one knows how; if you can.