Thread: Ethernet device info

You may want to look into the /proc , and the proc() syscalls. I've not done this myself, but something similar, and I think you should look at some manpages, maybe linux sourcecode.

Hi

Thanks for the answer. I checked out the /proc files, some related man pages, and the libc docs, and that's what I found:

The file /proc/pci stores info about all the PCI devices (it's generated by the kernel). Since none of the new motherboards have ISA slots, this would be enough, however some of the details are missing.:

I can't find the device names or MAC addresses (eth0 etc) in /proc/pci.

I can fetch the name of the correctly cinfigured devices using the if_nameindex structure and other routines in net/if.h. But this struct has only two members: index and name. No other info is available!

Without the MAC address or a name, I can't indentify the card. I've got two Realteks. Now which one is eth0? -

Finally, the device names (including the currently inactive ones) can also be found in /proc/net/dev.
The rest of the file doesn't seem to be interesting.

I will check the kernel source as well tomorrow, but I hope there is an easier way. -

Any more ideas? Please guys post your thoughts!

Thanks again!