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Asked: 2016-10-19 22:58:50 +0800 CST

How to find out what driver the Ethernet NIC is using?

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I have a 10Gbps Ethernet NIC on my Ubuntu box which is named eth0. Is there any way to find out which driver is loaded to work with this NIC?

12.04

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    The command ethtool -i outputs hardware info about the NIC. Use following command to see driver name:

    ethtool -i eth0 | grep driver

    The output is like this:

    driver: e1000
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