How to check if PCIE device installed? Else how to install driver?

[mrinmay]

Hi all,

Can anyone let me know how to figure out if a device driver has been installed in Fedora/Linux?

I am using a 'expansion box' connected to the PCIE slot of my computer. The box came with a driver installation CD for Windows.

In Fedora/Linux, how do I figure out if the box has got installed?

( The expansion box hosts multiple PCI slots within itself).

( Just for information, inside the box, I hooked a fpga pci card and when I do dmesg from my computer, it seems to detect the PCI card).

Please help.

Thanks

[reed9]

Well, using dmesg would be one way. If it's showing the device, it seems to be working, yes? Unless it's showing an error.

You can look at the output of lspci. See if it shows up there. Various flags will give you more info including if there is a driver is use. (lspci -vnn)

You can look at the output of lsmod to see if the driver module is loaded.

Most things work out of the box in linux. There is a huge amount of hardware support built right into the kernel. Assuming it did need a driver, you would have to find one written for linux (presuming there is one), you couldn't use the windows driver. (The exception is some windows wireless drivers, which can be used with a program called ndiswrapper.)