How to check the current version of the network card under the Linux operating system

The driver of the network card in linux is added in the form of module, so you can directly see the currently loaded module with lsmod, that is, you can see that the NIC driver is not loaded yet, but only the NIC module can be seen here. Name, other information is not available, such as the version number of the current NIC driver. At present, the main network card of IBM server is the network card of intel and broadcom chip

Broadcom is the example of operating system for redhat as 3 update 2 x205 test

Usually, when the linux system starts, when the network card is loaded At that time, a log message will be generated to write /var/log/messages or dmesg, which has more detailed network card information, including the version number, such as

dmesg