[PLUG] How to find driver version number

[John Jason Jordan]

On Thu, 8 May 2008 15:23:59 -0500
"Robert Citek" <robert.citek at gmail.com> dijo:

> On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Paul Heinlein <heinlein at madboa.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 8 May 2008, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> >
> >  > My command line reference books are not helping and neither is Google,
> >  > nor can I find a GUI in Hardy with the answer. I want to find what
> >  > version of the iwl4965 wireless driver I am using. Lsmod just gives me
> >  > "iwl4965." There has to be a way from the command line to get the
> >  > details, but I can't find it. Suggestions?
> >
> >  modinfo iwl4965 | head
> 
> Nice.  How did you know about modinfo?
> 
> I did a man on lsmod, modprobe, insmod, and rmmod, none of which
> reference modinfo.  A man on modinfo did reference modprobe.  Since
> cross-referencing seems inomplete, I tried this to see what other
> interesting module commands may show up:

Indeed. It works great, but I googled all over looking for something
like it without luck. Thanks for the info. Now I'm off to find out what
the latest version from Intel is and try to figure out how to install
it.