How to find the Network card vendor and model?

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How to find the Network card vendor and model?

I am trying to find my built in Ethernet card vendor and model as I would like to run parallels and run solaris on top of it. I poked around with System Profiler but it doesn't give me much info. This is on a Core 2 Duo Mac book and OS X 10.4.8

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Mac Book Core 2 Duo, Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Posted on Jan 23, 2007 8:08 AM

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macdummy01 Author

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Jan 26, 2007 8:29 AM in response to macdummy01

Huh? Gotta see thru device manager?? No other way in
OS X to see your devices, models and makes. How about
BSD commands? I tried dmesg. It didn't give me what I
wanted.

It sounds so lame that I can't see the NIC card
vendor and model. System profiler doesn't list the
vendors or model.

Answering my own Q. ioreg -l lists all the devices

Called Apple Tech support and the guy said Apple is the vendor. I explained him and he denied to escalate it to some of his senior members who can tell me what the **** it is.

snip from my output

Vendor" = "Marvell"
| | | | "IOMediumDictionary" = {"00100026"={"Type"=1048614,"Speed"=100000000,"Ind$
| | | | "IOModel" = "Yukon Gigabit Adapter 88E8053"
| | | | "IOFeatures" = 2
| | | | "WaitForLinkUp" = 6000
| | | | "Model" = "Yukon Gigabit Adapter 88E8053"

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macdummy01 Author

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Jan 23, 2007 12:03 PM in response to macdummy01

Knock Knock! Any one around?

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Answer 3

Jan 23, 2007 1:04 PM in response to macdummy01

according to device manager in xp on bootcamp, the wireless card is Atheros AR5006X Wireless Network Adapter, the ethernet card is Marvell Yukon 88E8053 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller. this is on a coreduo macbook however, so I'm pretty sure you're gonna have a different model number.

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macdummy01 Author

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Jan 24, 2007 1:26 PM in response to walter9258

Huh? Gotta see thru device manager?? No other way in OS X to see your devices, models and makes. How about BSD commands? I tried dmesg. It didn't give me what I wanted.

It sounds so lame that I can't see the NIC card vendor and model. System profiler doesn't list the vendors or model.

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