Linux through the NIC driver and version number information

Check card manufacturer and signal

View basic information: LSPCI

View Details: LSPCI-VVV # 3 Small composition V

View card information: LSPCI | grep Ethernet

View Network card Drivers

View network card driver information: LSPCI-VVV # Find specific information about the NIC device. Includes NIC driver

# LSMOD Lists all drivers that are loaded. Includes NIC driver

View NIC driver version number

View module information: Modifo<module name> # includes version information

or # ethtool-i <device name>

The NIC driver version number in RHEL 6.3:

# Modinfo IGB

FileName:/lib/modules/2.6.32-279.el6.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/igb/igb.ko

Version:3.2.10-k

License:gpl

Description:intel (R) Gigabit Ethernet Network Driver

# Modinfo e1000e

FileName:/lib/modules/2.6.32-279.el6.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/e1000e/e1000e.ko

Version:1.9.5-k

License:gpl

Description:intel (R) pro/1000 Network Driver

Author:intel Corporation,<[email protected]>

# Modinfo e1000

FileName:/lib/modules/2.6.32-279.el6.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/e1000/e1000.ko

Version:8.0.35-napi

License:gpl

Description:intel (R) pro/1000 Network Driver

# Modinfo Ixgbe

FileName:/lib/modules/2.6.32-279.el6.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe.ko

Version:3.6.7-k

License:gpl

Description:intel (R) Gigabit PCI Express networkdriver

# Modinfo r8169

FileName:/lib/modules/2.6.32-279.el6.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/r8169.ko

Version:2.3lk-napi

License:gpl

Description:realtek RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet Driver

To view the number of network interface queues

To view interrupt information for the NIC interface: #cat/proc/interrupts | grep eth0

or # ethtool-s eth0

View the version of the NIC driver source code

Unzip the Intel network card driver source code. Open the *.spec file under the Unpacked folder to view the driver version number.

For example: After extracting the e1000-8.0.35.tar.gz NIC driver, view the E1000.spec file.

name:e1000

Summary:intel (R) Gigabit Ethernet Connection

version:8.0.35

Release:1

Source:%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz

Vendor:intel Corporation

License:gpl

Exclusiveos:linux

Group:system Environment/kernel

In the drive source src folder, look for:

#grep drv_version * # Forlinux

#findstr drv_version * # for Windows

A line defining the driver version number can also be found in E1000_MAIN.C:

#define Drv_version "8.0.35" Drv_napi drv_debug drv_hw_perf

In the e1000e src folder under the netdev.c file:

#define Drv_version "3.0.4.1" drv_extraversion

IGB_MAIN.C:

#define MAJ 5

#define MIN 2

#define BUILD 9.4

#define DRV_VERSION__STRINGIFY (MAJ) "." __stringify (MIN) "." \

IXGBE_MAIN.C:

#define Drv_version __stringify (3.22.3) driveriovdrv_hw_perf FP GA \

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Linux through the NIC driver and version number information