Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 19:07:32 +0000 From: vrwmiller@gmail.com To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>, vrwmiller@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re: Ascertaining NIC Driver Version Message-ID: <90e6ba53a96292df1904994654af@google.com> In-Reply-To: <DF3CD99C-976C-4BB4-8CE4-54166D0A0C3A@mac.com>
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Thanks, Chuck! I Googled for an answer for a while and didn't find much. I did find that the particular driver I was interested did have a version number in the source, but the question actually came from a user who doesn't have source trees on their hosts. On Jan 7, 2011 1:45pm, Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> wrote: > 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, > -- > -Chuck
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