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From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: Ascertaining NIC Driver Version
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On Jan 7, 2011, at 10:33 AM, vrwmiller@gmail.com wrote:
> Is there a command line utility, a la ethtool or the like, that can be used to query the NIC driver version?

"uname -a" is probably the most general answer, as most FreeBSD NIC drivers don't have individualized version #s, aside from the OS version itself.

The sysctl tree under dev for a particular device, ie, "sysctl dev.bce", "sysctl dev.em", etc will return more information which might include a vendor-specific driver version #...

Regards,
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-Chuck