Re: lshw for netbsd ?

[feralert <feralert%gmail.com@localhost>]

Ooops, you're right Martin, i forgot to mention what lshw actually does, sorry.

A quote from its site:
"lshw (Hardware Lister) is a small tool to provide detailed
information on the hardware configuration of the machine. It can
report exact memory configuration, firmware version, mainboard
configuration, CPU version and speed, cache configuration, bus speed,
etc. on DMI-capable x86 or EFI (IA-64) systems and on some PowerPC
machines ( PowerMac G4 is known to work). "

Specifically, in my linux boxes i can see the hardware model of the
machine, which is what I'm really looking for here::
lshw | head -3
hostname
    description: Tower Computer
    product: ProLiant ML310 G5

I'll give pcictl a try and look in dmesg.boot.

Thanks for your help.



On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Martin Husemann 
<martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 11:47:51AM +0200, feralert wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm new on the list and new to NetBSD too, so hi everyone! and please
>> excuse the 'simplicity' of my questions.
>
> Hi and welcome!
>
>> >From now on I have to administer a few NetBSD servers which are not
>> based on my location. I'm trying to make an inventory of them and for
>> this purpose I'd like to find out what hardware they run under and I'm
>> looking for something similar to the lshw command found in every linux
>> distro out there. Is there something similar for NetBSD?
>
> I'm not sure what lshw does ;-)
> but I guess for a start you may want to look at the kernel output, via
> the "dmesg" program, or the file /var/run/dmesg.boot (which is just the
> output of dmesg, captured early after boot).
>
> Another thing to try is:
>
>   pcictl list pci0
>
> (repeat for more pci* probably)
>
> Martin
>