How can I turn off the PCI slots and change the device (especially NIC) without shutting the server down? I found a similar question (How do I turn off PCI devices?) but there are no /sys/bus/pci/slot and no files in /sys/bus/pci/slots. I'm using 12.04 LTS. $ uname -a Linux d1-c1-r1-p1 3.2.0-38-generic #61-Ubuntu SMP Tue Feb 19 12:18:21 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ lspci | grep Eth 04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation I350 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 01) 04:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation I350 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 01) 09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82599EB 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection (rev 01) 09:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82599EB 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection (rev 01) $ ls /sys/bus/pci/ devices/ drivers_probe slots/ drivers/ rescan uevent drivers_autoprobe resource_alignment $ ls /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000\:04\:00.0/ broken_parity_status driver modalias rescan subsystem class enable msi_bus reset subsystem_device config firmware_node net resource subsystem_vendor consistent_dma_mask_bits irq numa_node resource0 uevent device local_cpulist power resource2 vendor dma_mask_bits local_cpus remove resource3