{"id":104,"date":"2014-05-30T12:28:37","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T11:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virtit.nl\/?p=104"},"modified":"2015-08-19T14:27:20","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T13:27:20","slug":"determine-the-nic-firmware-and-driver-version-for-esxi-5-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virtit.nl\/?p=104","title":{"rendered":"Determine the NIC firmware and driver version for ESXi 5.5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In ESXi 5.1 you could use the command ethtool -i vmnicX to get the firmware and driver version for the Network interface card. In 5.5 you get an error: Can not get control fd: No such file or directory.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To get the firmware and driver version use the following command in 5.5:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"top-set:false bottom-set:false toolbar:2 toolbar-overlay:false toolbar-hide:false toolbar-delay:false show-title:false striped:false marking:false ranges:false nums:false wrap-toggle:false lang:default decode:true\">esxcli network nic get -n vmnicX<\/pre>\n<p>To get a list of nics:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"top-set:false bottom-set:false toolbar:2 toolbar-overlay:false toolbar-hide:false toolbar-delay:false show-title:false striped:false marking:false ranges:false nums:false wrap-toggle:false lang:default decode:true\">esxcli network nic list<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In ESXi 5.1 you could use the command ethtool -i vmnicX to get the firmware and driver version for the Network interface card. In 5.5 you get an error: Can not get control fd: No such file or directory. &nbsp; To get the firmware and driver version use the following command in 5.5: esxcli network [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtit.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtit.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtit.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtit.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtit.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtit.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtit.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtit.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtit.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtit.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}