Best solution to discover NIC at bootup?

I would like to auto-probe the
ethernet card when booting up a PC.
I have a kernel without ethernet HW support
and a bunch of modules that I would like to
iterate at bootup in order to find the right one
for the current NIC.
Is there a best solution for this?
TIA

On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Lars Olsson wrote:

> I would like to auto-probe the
> ethernet card when booting up a PC.
> I have a kernel without ethernet HW support
> and a bunch of modules that I would like to
> iterate at bootup in order to find the right one
> for the current NIC.
> Is there a best solution for this?

What's wrong with just attempting to load all the modules?

How?

"Whoever" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:Pine.LNX.4.44.0309051142480.12231-100000@c941211-a...
> On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Lars Olsson wrote:
>
> > I would like to auto-probe the
> > ethernet card when booting up a PC.
> > I have a kernel without ethernet HW support
> > and a bunch of modules that I would like to
> > iterate at bootup in order to find the right one
> > for the current NIC.
> > Is there a best solution for this?
>
> What's wrong with just attempting to load all the modules?
>
>

On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Lars Olsson wrote:

> How?
>
> "Whoever" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:Pine.LNX.4.44.0309051142480.12231-100000@c941211-a...
> > On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Lars Olsson wrote:
> >
> > > I would like to auto-probe the
> > > ethernet card when booting up a PC.
> > > I have a kernel without ethernet HW support
> > > and a bunch of modules that I would like to
> > > iterate at bootup in order to find the right one
> > > for the current NIC.
> > > Is there a best solution for this?
> >
> > What's wrong with just attempting to load all the modules?
> >
> >

1. Please don't top-post. It is considered bad etiquette.
2. It may depend on your distribution (Redhat, Debian, etc) but first use
the documentation. Run:
man modules.conf
man modprobe
Go from there -- you may need to read more man files. Look for "SEE ALSO"
near the end of the man file.


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> I would like to auto-probe the
> ethernet card when booting up a PC.
> I have a kernel without ethernet HW support
> and a bunch of modules that I would like to
> iterate at bootup in order to find the right one
> for the current NIC.
> Is there a best solution for this?

If the ethernet cards are PCI, they will show up with such a command:

cat /proc/pci | grep -i eth -B 1 -A 2