Re: How to find version number of eepro100 thats loaded

On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Paul J. Sala wrote:

> I need to force 100 full duplex for my eepro100  driver.
> At: http://www.scyld.com/network/eepro100.html
> It states the transceiver options. But I need to know if my driver
> is 1.15 or greater or 1.14 or less so I know which syntax to use.
...
> static const char *version =
> "eepro100.c:v1.09j-t 9/29/99 Donald Becker http://www.scyld.com/network/eepro100
> .html\n"
> "eepro100.c: $Revision: 1.36 $ 2000/11/17 Modified by Andrey V. Savochkin 
> <[email protected]> and others\n";

This is v1.09, with 36 noted modifications.  There are 
It may not have the semantics of the original v1.09.

> I tried using   "eepro-diag -v eth0"   but it does not show the
> version number.

The eepro-diag program shows only the hardware state.  It has no direct
interaction with the driver, although it may indirectly interface with
something the driver was doing to the hardware.

> Is there a way to query the eepro100 version number from the command line?

The easiest way is to use 'dmesg' after the driver is loaded.
I use 'strings' on the eepro100.o file.
Someday 'modinfo' might add a field to report this information.
  I've considered putting the version in the description field.
  This may be a Bad Idea, as some script may rely on identical descriptions.

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