Driver detection tool

[gopu]

hello,

I have installed in SUSE 11.1 in my DELL XPS 1640 laptop. Is there any way by which I can know the devices for which the installed driver is not correct?

[oz]

If you have the wrong driver installed for any devices, I'd think those devices won't work at all, or they will only work partially. Is that what you mean?

[gopu]

Yes, is there no software or commands avilable that can tell me which all devices have wrong driver installed as in windows where if driver is not correct or installed you can find that out in device manager.

[D-cat]

The command lsmod tells you which "drivers" (or modules in Linux) are loaded, at least the ones on a kernel level. It doesn't necessarily tell you what each module is driving, though if you know what's supposed to be driving a certain device, you can look to see if that module is loaded.

Drivers that are not loaded on a kernel level but are rather run from an application are called "backends", mostly used for scanners and certain non-filesystem standard cameras and audio devices (mp3 players). Since these are application specific, I can't really comment on whre you find what's being used with these type files.

[deano_ferrari]

The command lsmod tells you which "drivers" (or modules in Linux) are loaded, at least the ones on a kernel level. It doesn't necessarily tell you what each module is driving, though if you know what's supposed to be driving a certain device, you can look to see if that module is loaded.

Further to this advice the following command can be useful to show which driver is currently associated with particular pci hardware:

/sbin/lspci -k

[gogalthorp]

Further to this advice the following command can be useful to show which driver is currently associated with particular pci hardware:

/sbin/lspci -k

That does not appear to be an option on Suse.

[deano_ferrari]

That does not appear to be an option on Suse.

Its part of the pciutils package which should be installed by default.

[gogalthorp]

The -k parameter does not work on Suse 10.2 at least the lspci command is there. It is not in the man and returns an error if used.

[deano_ferrari]

That may be, but for openSUSE 11.0 onwards, it is in the man pages and does exist. The OP mentioned that they were using 11.1

[waterhead]

Thanks for that tip, deano_ferrari! I wasn't aware of that option. This may be something that can be used in troubleshooting wireless devices.

It is available in Ubuntu 9.04, and I get this output for my network cards.

01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)
    Kernel driver in use: ath5k
    Kernel modules: ath5k, ath_pci
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Attansic Technology Corp. L2 100 Mbit Ethernet Adapter (rev a0)
    Kernel driver in use: atl2
    Kernel modules: atl2

COOL!