How to online identify PCI BUS speed of ethernet card?

Mikkel L. Ellertson mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Fri Jun 9 01:16:26 UTC 2006


Robinson Tiemuqinke wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  Get a pretty "hard" question on my fedora boxes now
> -- Anyone know how to online identify the PCI Bus
> type/speed of a connected Ethernet card(s)?
> 
>  I have a bunches of boxes running Linux FC4/FC5, When
> we ran 2.4 kernel we could use command "cat
> /proc/net/nicinfo/eth0.info|grep PCI_Bus_Speed" to
> figure out the underlying PCI bus' type and speed just
> like the following:
> 
> [root at testnode01 root]# cat
> /proc/net/nicinfo/eth0.info | grep PCI_Bus_Speed
> PCI_Bus_Speed                   PCI Express
> [root at testnode01 root]# 
> 
>  But I could not find a similar way to get the same
> information on FC4/FC5 b/c 2.6 kernel is in use.
> 
>  There is a tool dmidecode helps a little, but the
> info about network/PCI-bus are so unclear and discrete
> and it looks there is no way to "bind" info for
> ethernet and info for PCI Buses.
> 
>  Please help.
> 
> Thanks a lot
> 
Does "lspci -vv" give you what you want?

Mikkel
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