Linking a devices with a module?

Gerrard Geldenhuis Gerrard.Geldenhuis at datacash.com
Mon May 5 10:02:03 UTC 2008


> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Chet Nichols III
> Sent: 04 May 2008 07:27
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Re: Linking a devices with a module?
> 
snip
> 
> Between dmesg, looking through /sys and /proc, and using lsmod and
> modinfo,
> you should hopefully end up having a pretty good idea about your
device
> and
> what module is being loaded for it.
> 
> For example,
> # modinfo cpqarray
> 
> will dump out lots about the cpqarray module.
> 
> Hope this helps! If it doesn't, feel free to send over your (probably
> long)
> dmesg output and let's see if we can help you out a little more.
> 
> Take care!
> 
> Chet

Hi Chet,
Thanks, I delved a bit more in dmesg and with some deduction manage to
find out what I needed. I thought that there might be a way of querying
the proc system to see what module is used to drive a certain device.

Regards




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