RHEL5 Force Load Driver

[sicarie]

I have a NIC that is not functioning properly, and I'd like to check and see if the driver is loaded, and then force load it if not. (RHEL5 OS)

I found the driver through lspci, do I just use modprobe to attempt to re-load the driver?

If so, can I then double-check that the driver is loaded?

[ashitpro]

try 'lsmod' command.
It should show you all loaded kernel modules and drivers.

Look for your NIC. If its not there then try modprobe.

And even if you try to load the module twice with modeprobe, it will tell you that module is already loaded.

[sicarie]

They're up and loaded - thanks!