Network Card

[Barney Cordoba]

--- On Tue, 4/21/09, Boris Kochergin <spawk at acm.poly.edu> wrote:

> From: Boris Kochergin <spawk at acm.poly.edu>
> Subject: Re: Network Card
> To: "ovi freebsd" <lists at freebsdonline.com>
> Cc: freebsd-net at freebsd.org, "Kaushal Shriyan" <kaushalshriyan at gmail.com>, "Ingo Flaschberger" <if at xip.at>
> Date: Tuesday, April 21, 2009, 9:36 AM
> ovi freebsd wrote:
> > Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
> >> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Ingo Flaschberger
> <if at xip.at> wrote:
> >> 
> >>  
> >>> Dear Kaushal,
> >>> 
> >>>  I have two lan cards em0 and rl0 on my
> system. is there a way to know on
> >>>    
> >>>> freebsd which is onboard or pci card ?.
> The issue is my system is located
> >>>> at
> >>>> remote location.
> >>>> 
> >>>>       
> >>> perhaps lspci -v helps.
> >>> 
> >>> or something like dmidecode (at linux, does
> not know the freebsd name),
> >>> then you can readout the mb-name.
> >>> 
> >>> Kind regards,
> >>>        Ingo Flaschberger
> >>> 
> >>>     
> >> 
> >> Hi Ingo
> >> 
> >> I did pciconf -lv and ran dmidecode. I could not
> figure it out which one was
> >> onboard or pci ?
> >> Do you want me to paste the output of that
> commands
> >> 
> >> Please suggest
> >> 
> >> Thanks and Regards
> >> 
> >> Kaushal
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> >>   
> > It is possible to find you the manufacturer of the
> motherboard? If yes, it would be easy to know which is
> onboard and which is on PCI since are different network
> chipsets.
> > 
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> As an extension of this, what CPU is in the machine? I have
> never seen an AMD motherboard come with an onboard Intel
> controller. That is not to say that one doesn't exist,
> but that it is very rare.
> 
> -Boris

On all of the MBs that I have, the slot NIC appears before the onboard
ports in the pciconf -l listing. Its certainly not for sure.

Barney