How to get NIC Firmware versions

Question

Ive been trying to get the NIC firmware versions of all of our physical servers but i cant seems to find a powershell code or script that can do this. I have tried wmiobject, ciminstance and get-netadapter but no firmware versions. Any suggestions? Any code or script is ok as long as i can get this info.

Answer 1

Hello

Thank you for your question and reaching out. I can understand you are having query\issues related to NIC firmware.

To the best of my knowledge, powershell cannot be totally relied upon to obtain the FW information of the NIC card.

I advise you to seek further assistance from the PC maker.

Reference :

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/4ebf5f4b-acec-4609-98df-a6a2327dd06a/windows-command-to-get-fw-version-of-nic-card?forum=winserverpowershell

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Answer 2

I don't think you'll be able to get that information using PowerShell. I think the closest you can get is the NDIS version.

Each NIC manufacturer probably has software that will get that information, but one manufacturers' software very likely won't work for another brand. You'd have to have the NIC manufacturers' software on each machine. Or you could place it in a file share, but then you'll probably run into problems with the "double hop" problem and authentication if your code is launched from machine "A" to run on machine "B" and the file share is on machine "C".