Display device information with the dmesg command.
# /usr/sbin/dmesg |
The dmesg output is displayed as messages on the system console and identifies which devices are connected to the system since the last reboot.
The following dmesg output is displayed from a SPARC system.
# dmesg Dec 12 16:22 SunOS Release 5.6 Version [UNIX(R) System V Release 4.0] Copyright (c) 1983-1997, Sun Microsystems, Inc. pac: enabled - SuperSPARC cpu0: TI,TMS390Z50 (mid 8 impl 0x0 ver 0x3 clock 50 MHz) mem = 32768K (0x2000000) avail mem = 28016640 Ethernet address = 8:0:20:79:7a:e5 root nexus = SUNW,SPARCstation-20 iommu0 at root: obio 0xe0000000 sbus0 at iommu0: obio 0xe0001000 espdma0 at sbus0: SBus slot f 0x400000 esp0: esp-options=0x46 esp0 at espdma0: SBus slot f 0x800000 sparc ipl 4 sd3 at esp0: target 3 lun 0 sd3 is /iommu@f,e0000000/sbus@f,e0001000/espdma@f,400000/esp@f,800000/sd@3,0 sd5 at esp0: target 5 lun 0 sd5 is /iommu@f,e0000000/sbus@f,e0001000/espdma@f,400000/esp@f,800000/sd@5,0 root on /iommu@f,e0000000/sbus@f,e0001000/espdma@f,400000/esp@f,800000/sd@3,0:a fstype ufs obio0 at root zs0 at obio0: obio 0x100000 sparc ipl 12 zs0 is /obio/zs@0,100000 zs1 at obio0: obio 0x0 sparc ipl 12 zs1 is /obio/zs@0,0 cgsix0 at sbus0: SBus slot 2 0x0 SBus level 5 sparc ipl 9 cgsix0 is /iommu@f,e0000000/sbus@f,e0001000/cgsix@2,0 cgsix0: screen 1152x900, single buffered, 1M mappable, rev 11 cpu 0 initialization complete - online ledma0 at sbus0: SBus slot f 0x400010 le0 at ledma0: SBus slot f 0xc00000 sparc ipl 6 le0 is /iommu@f,e0000000/sbus@f,e0001000/ledma@f,400010/le@f,c00000 dump on /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s1 size 102804K # |
The following dmesg output is displayed from an x86 system.
# dmesg Nov 12 10:30 SunOS Release 5.6 Version [UNIX(R) System V Release 4.0] Copyright (c) 1983-1997, Sun Microsystems, Inc. mem = 15992K (0xf9e000) avail mem = 12070912 root nexus = i86pc eisa0 at root EISA-device: dpt6 Disk0: <Vendor `MAXTOR ` Product `LXT-535S `> cmdk0 at dpt6 target 0 lun 0 cmdk0 is /eisa/dpt@5c88,0/cmdk@0,0 Disk6: <Vendor `SONY ` Product `CD-ROM CDU-8012 `> cmdk6 at dpt6 target 6 lun 0 cmdk6 is /eisa/dpt@5c88,0/cmdk@6,0 EISA-device: asy0 asy0 is /eisa/asy@3f8,0 Ethernet address = 0:0:c0:68:14:5d SMC WD8003/WD8013 driver: type=WD8013W addr=00 00 c0 68 14 5d EISA-device: smc0 smc0 is /eisa/smc@0,c0000 dump on /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s1 size 32756K NOTICE: GIO_KEYMAP type 0 NOTICE: PIO_KEYMAP type 0 NOTICE: INSTALLING new map of type USL FORMAT NOTICE: IN i8042_acquire NOTICE: out i8042_acquire NOTICE: rv was 1 NOTICE: IN i8042_release NOTICE: about to enable keyboard NOTICE: out i8042_release Nov 30 17:19:31 sendmail[171]: network daemon starting |