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Subject: Re: Re: Ascertaining NIC Driver Version
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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