Re: Aunt Tillie builds a kernel (was Re: ISA hardware discovery -- the elegant solution)

From: Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Date: Mon Jan 14 2002 - 17:36:21 EST


Dave Jones wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 05:07:37PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >
> > For network cards one needs only to issue the ETHTOOL_GDRVINFO ioctl to
> > find out what hardware is associated with an ethernet interface.
>
> but not all the net drivers support this yet do they?

correct. But it is the proper path one should take on this particular
train of thought ;-)

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