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Asked: 2026-05-26T01:01:37+00:00

Is there a way programmatically driver name of interface, except of parsing output of

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Is there a way programmatically driver name of interface, except of parsing output of “ethtool -i interface_name”?

I would happy if it can be retrieved from a file.

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    You can query sysfs for it. Read the target of the /sys/class/net/$interface/device/driver symlink and take the part after the last /.

    Example:

    $ stat --format '%N' /sys/class/net/*/device/driver
‘/sys/class/net/eth0/device/driver’ -> ‘../../../../bus/pci/drivers/jme’
‘/sys/class/net/wlan0/device/driver’ -> ‘../../../../bus/pci/drivers/iwlagn’
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