System Administration Guide: Basic Administration

Examples—Displaying Device Information

The following dmesg output is displayed from a SPARC based system.


# dmesg
Jan  3 08:44:41 starbug genunix: [ID 540533 kern.notice] SunOS Release 5.9 ...
Jan  3 08:44:41 starbug genunix: [ID 913631 kern.notice] Copyright 1983-2002 ...
Jan  3 08:44:41 starbug genunix: [ID 678236 kern.info] Ethernet address = ...
Jan  3 08:44:41 starbug unix: [ID 389951 kern.info] mem = 131072K (0x8000000)
Jan  3 08:44:41 starbug unix: [ID 930857 kern.info] avail mem = 121888768
Jan  3 08:44:41 starbug rootnex: [ID 466748 kern.info] root nexus = 
Sun Ultra 5/10 UPA/PCI (UltraSPARC-IIi 333MHz)
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The following dmesg output is displayed from an IA based system.


# dmesg
Jan  2 07:21:46 naboo genunix: [ID 540533 kern.notice] SunOS Release 5.9 Version ...
Jan  2 07:21:46 naboo genunix: [ID 913631 kern.notice] Copyright 1983-2002 ...
Jan  2 07:21:46 naboo genunix: [ID 897550 kern.info] Using default device ...
Jan  2 07:21:46 naboo unix: [ID 168242 kern.info] mem = 130684K (0x7f9f000)
Jan  2 07:21:46 naboo unix: [ID 930857 kern.info] avail mem = 116547584
Jan  2 07:21:46 naboo rootnex: [ID 466748 kern.info] root nexus = i86pc
Jan  2 07:21:46 naboo rootnex: [ID 349649 kern.info] pci0 at root: ...
Jan  2 07:21:46 naboo genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] pci0 is /pci@0,0
Jan  2 07:21:46 naboo genunix: [ID 678236 kern.info] Ethernet address = ...
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