From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 23 15:31:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pop.hccnet.nl (pop.hccnet.nl [193.172.127.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EC1137B422 for ; Sat, 23 Sep 2000 15:31:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parmenides.utp.net by pop.hccnet.nl via uds34-115.dial.hccnet.nl [193.173.115.34] with ESMTP id AAA22367 (8.8.5/1.13); Sun, 24 Sep 2000 00:31:52 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (janko@localhost) by parmenides.utp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA00872; Sun, 24 Sep 2000 00:31:51 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from janko@compuserve.com) X-Authentication-Warning: parmenides.utp.net: janko owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 00:31:51 +0200 (CEST) From: Janko van Roosmalen X-Sender: janko@parmenides.utp.net To: cal@rushe.aero.org Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dmesg codes, , vendor codes In-Reply-To: <200009231851.LAA05180@calamari.aero.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If you are talking about NICs. Nowadays www.ieee.org keeps the list of Ethernet vendor codes. The first 3 bytes of an Ethernet MAC address designate the manufacturer/vendor. I downloaded it a few weeks ago (oui.txt). It was not that easy to find on their site. If you want I can email the list to you. Maybe somebody else knows how to get hold of PNP vendor numbers. Janko van Roosmalen - Vught - Netherlands On Sat, 23 Sep 2000 cal@rushe.aero.org wrote: > > my next 4.0 question concerns the output of dmesg (i run 4.0 now, but i > suspect that the answer is the same regardless of which version is used) > > occasionally (that is, on some machines), i get some messages, > with a vendor number - where can i find a list of such codes (is there a web > site or something? looking for "vendor" and "code" and related terms does not > work very well), and other information that will let me interpret what dmesg > does not? > > i think this will help me adjust each of my kernel configurations properly for > sound (the rest seems to be working pretty well), since there are 4 different > machines with 4 different hardware configurations, and 6 different kernel > configurations to consider (the laptops each have two hard disks) > > more real soon, > cal > > Dr. Christopher Landauer > Aerospace Integration Science Center > cal@aero.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message