Comments on: FreeBSD Display Information About The System Hardware

By: Khan

Khan — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:34:29 +0000

how to get the mother board model in freebsd

By: tigos2

tigos2 — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 11:47:12 +0000

dmesg not work if system has few days and more uptime! /var/log/messages* overwrited too! I want full report of hardware on the system. How may I do? (ls /dev and pciconf -vl, but is not full report :( ) May I restart utility like dmesg?

By: SIFE

SIFE — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:31:56 +0000

Salamo ALikom
what i have to type if i want full system hardware like sound card ,video card etc .
thx for the tutorial .

By: Daz

Daz — Wed, 14 May 2008 07:28:41 +0000

If you only want to know the number of CPUs, try this:

# sysctl -a | grep hw.ncpu
hw.ncpu: 8

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 11:10:00 +0000

thanks nilesh.. that was great help
-Ajit

By: Nilesh Hiray

Nilesh Hiray — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 22:09:00 +0000

adding to what jamie said …

a more reliable way to find say the number of CPU’s will be

cat /var/run/dmesg.boot | grep CPU

–Nilesh

By: jamie

jamie — Wed, 18 May 2005 09:28:00 +0000

Note that the “dmesg” information you are referring to is that retrieved on boot. After a while of system usage, that data can be “lost” as it’s replaced by other information that is appended to the buffer.

For this reason, the usual startup scripts copy the ‘dmesg’ output on bootup to /var/run/dmesg.boot – you’d be safer grepping your information from that file

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 03:39:00 +0000

Thanks. Needing to branch out from my Linux and Solaris world. . .