On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 10:06:06AM -0600, Adam Douglas wrote: > No, I double checked the commands and they are typed correctly. I still > receive the messages I mentioned below.
Your hardware vendor etc. simply isn't detected (yet). No need to worry. To see whats available about your hardware, type 'sysctl hw'. Tobias > > On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 08:19:32AM -0600, Adam Douglas wrote: > >> Hi. When I try doing sysctl on hw.vendor and hw.product I receive a > >> message of "sysctl: second level name vendor in hw.vendor is invalid" > >> and "sysctl: second level name product in hw.product is invalid". > Does > >> this mean syctl is unable to retrieve this information or the > >> information is not present? > > >I get > > > >$ sysctl hw.vendor > >sysctl: hw.vendor: value is not available $ sysctl hw.product > >hw.product=VT8366-8233 > > > >on my -current box; the box next to it gives 'Dell Computer > Corporation' > >for hw.vendor. > > > >All in all, not quite the same as you... did you mistype, perhaps? > > > > Joachim
