Comments on: Linux Find Out If PCI Hardware Supported or Not In The Current Running Kernel

By: Michel

Michel — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:25:58 +0000

Hi, great I really can use this. You can do the same with USB

michel@server:~/scripts => lsusb | grep Realtek
Bus 001 Device 127: ID 0bda:8187 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8187 Wireless Adapter
michel@server:~/scripts => sudo grep 0bda /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.usbmap | cut -d" " -f1 | sort -u
rtl8187
michel@server:~/scripts => sudo modinfo rtl8187 | egrep 'description|filename|depends'
filename:       /lib/modules/2.6.31.9-grsec-nsas/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8187.ko
description:    RTL8187/RTL8187B USB wireless driver
depends:        mac80211,eeprom_93cx6

By: shasikanta

shasikanta — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 12:57:41 +0000

Hai, Please help me install NIC card in my PC, I am new to LINUX and dont have much idea. Card model is Realtek RTL8169/8110 Family Gigabit NIC. I have downloaded driver from Realtek site. and name of the folder is r8169-6.011.00.tar.bz2. so please help me to install.

By: Vivek Gite

Vivek Gite — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:22:55 +0000

You can do that if you know PCI ID in advance. You can skip lspci step.

By: George

George — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:52:39 +0000

Correct me if I’m wrong, but if you want to see if a given PCI hardware is supported by your kernel, shouldn’t you be able to do this without first inserting the PCI card in the server and seeing that is detected properly?

By: Vivek Gite

Vivek Gite — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:07:04 +0000

Yes, you need latest version. RHEL usually runs stable and older version for all packages. My current version is 3.0.x

By: ashwani

ashwani — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:27:43 +0000

i just checked i have pciutils package installed its pciutils.2.2.3.-4.i386 do i need newer than this?

By: ashwani

ashwani — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:24:23 +0000

Thanks for nice info

but man lspci -k doesnt work and i have just donwloaded rhel5 5.3 today its fully updated
and pls tell which package provides pcimodules becoz its seems to be not available here.

By: Vivek Gite

Vivek Gite — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 03:48:03 +0000

@ Debian64, You can't use lspci. You need to use RAID utility supplied by vendor. For e.g. Adaptec RAID (standard on IBM/HP/Dell servers) can be controlled via arcconf getconfig 1 command. See Linux Check The Health of Adaptec RAID array and Linux Check Health of 3ware RAID Array

By: Debian64

Debian64 — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 08:17:37 +0000

Question: how can I find out the state of the RAID from lspci ?

For example if I have a RAID 1 with 4 HDD’s or a RAID 5 or 6 how can I find out
the health of the RAID matrix ?