This is the output of lspci on my current OpenSuSE partition:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 07)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
-00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 03)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93)
-00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
-00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03)
-00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
-08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 03)
-0e:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY (rev 01)
-1a:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): O2 Micro, Inc. Device 10f7 (rev 01)
1a:00.1 SD Host controller: O2 Micro, Inc. Device 8120 (rev 01)
1a:00.2 Mass storage controller: O2 Micro, Inc. Device 8130 (rev 01)

The ones I marked with a dash are those I can't seem to find on the amd64 compatibility list... so will they not work, and/or what must I do to make them work after or during the install?

Anyway, what's really getting me is that no matter what I do, I can't seem to figure out how on Earth one determines what exactly will work and what won't?  What search or analysis techniques are used to figure this out?  I just can't seem to locate this kind of info on my own, and it's driving me *nuts*, so please, tell me how on earth you guys actually figure this stuff out in the first place...

~John Wesley Cooper

---- "Dmitrij D. Czarkoff" <czarkoff@gmail.com> wrote: 
<jwesleycooper@cox.net> wrote:
quoted text
> but once again I find myself beating my head against the proverbial brick
> wall trying to find the *actual* specifications for my hardware.  Is there,
> by any chance, a search engine that will accomplish this particular purpose?

Well, what OS are You running right now? If Linux, Your primary sources of
informations should be `lspci', `lsusb', `lsmod' and `zgrep /proc/config.gz'.

If windows, device manager would somehow help, but the rest of data should be
still found on internet. If You have a laptop or a barebone system, the query
"[modelname] linux" should give You reasonable results in google. If You have
a desktop, You can just use the data printed on hardware to determine details.

Effectively, if You just want to get an idea of the degree of Your hardware
support in OpenBSD, You may just boot the install medium and read dmesg
without actually installing anything - You'll get the idea.

--
Dmitrij D. Czarkoff