command to know the list of drivers installed on my linux system?

sanpraja · 06-04-2012, 12:54 AM

command to know the list of drivers installed on my linux system? apart from lsmod & modprobe.

zhjim · 06-04-2012, 12:57 AM

when in doubt if a appropiate driver is installed I check out /lib/modules/3.2.0-0.bpo.2-amd64/kernel/drivers/. Most of the times doing a find on the dir.
*edit*
You have to replace the kernel version after /lib/modules with your own. Do a uname -a to see which version is running right now. And ls /lib/modules to see which kernels are installed.

EricTRA · 06-04-2012, 01:00 AM

Hello,

You can have a look at the contents of /proc/modules to find out what modules are loaded on your system without using lsmod.

Kind regards,

Eric

evo2 · 06-04-2012, 01:08 AM

Hi,

depends on what you mean by drivers. You mention lsmod and modprobe, so perhaps you are actually asking about kernel modules.

Code:

find /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/ -name '*.ko'

does this on my machine.

If you are also interested things that are directly compiled into the kernel, depending on your distro, you may find a copy of the config file in /boot/ (/boot/config-$(uname -r) on Debian boxen).

Finally the config file for the running kernel may be somewhere in the virtual file system /sys, but I really don't remember right now.

HTH,

Evo2.

sanpraja · 06-04-2012, 11:51 PM

thank you