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