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Date:      Fri, 07 Jan 2011 11:23:31 -0800
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>
Cc:        vrwmiller@gmail.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Ascertaining NIC Driver Version
Message-ID:  <E5EA6FD4-8345-4109-B228-09E1D6BF6BF5@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <19751.26017.786985.199702@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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On Jan 7, 2011, at 11:12 AM, Robert Huff wrote:
>> "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.
> 
> 	That is not my understanding.
> 	To the OP: FreeBSD NIC drivers can and do have version numbers:
> 
> huff@>> grep \$FreeBSD /sys/dev/e1000/if_em.c
> /*$FreeBSD: src/sys/dev/e1000/if_em.c,v 1.64 2010/12/04 06:38:21 jfv Exp $*/

Um, that's the CVS revision number for that particular file.

It should be obvious that it has nothing whatsoever to do with a human-assigned driver version #, if one even exists, such as em "v6.9.21" for:

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&ProdId=839&DwnldID=17509&ProductFamily=Network+Connectivity&ProductLine=Intel%C2%AE+Server+Adapters&ProductProduct=Intel%C2%AE+PRO%2f1000+F+Server+Adaptereng

Regards,
-- 
-Chuck




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