ifconfig(case sensitive) is a Linux terminal command that displays network interfaces and can also be used to determine if the driver has been loaded correctly. ifconfig -ethx down deactivates the interface and ifconfig -ethx up activates it; which loads the driver again, similarly to when the board is powered on initially.

root@j7-evm:~# ifconfig
docker0: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500  metric 1
        inet 172.17.0.1  netmask 255.255.0.0  broadcast 172.17.255.255
        ether 02:42:f9:5b:d7:a4  txqueuelen 0  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

eth0: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500  metric 1
        ether 34:08:e1:59:5c:d2  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

eth1: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500  metric 1
        ether d2:eb:75:2d:68:21  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING>  mtu 65536  metric 1
        inet 127.0.0.1  netmask 255.0.0.0
        inet6 ::1  prefixlen 128  scopeid 0x10<host>
        loop  txqueuelen 1000  (Local Loopback)
        RX packets 82  bytes 6220 (6.0 KiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 82  bytes 6220 (6.0 KiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0