dmidecode - useful tool

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Wednesday, March 14. 2007

dmidecode - useful tool

I wrote a few days ago (only in german) about my requests to the 1und1-support for information about the hardware of our rootserver (to complete the PCI ID database).

Now, after their first reply, I now got another mail with more useful information: They pointed me to the tool dmidecode, which can find lot's of information about the BIOS and the motherboard. Didn't know that before, it's also useful to find out the BIOS version on a running system.

Now, this looks like what I was looking for:
Handle 0x0002, DMI type 2, 8 bytes
Base Board Information
Manufacturer: FUJITSU SIEMENS
Product Name: D2030-A1
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Yeah dmidecode is a nice tool.
It is also very helpfull, if you quickly need the serial of your computer (like they are placed by IBM/Lenovo) for the support-hotline, but don't want to look under the laptop (like it is here).

Handle 0x0001, DMI type 1, 27 bytes
System Information
Manufacturer: LENOVO
Product Name: 9453A11
Version: ThinkPad Z61m
*Serial Number*: ABCD123
*UUID*: SOME-LONG-HEX-STRING
Wake-up Type: Power Switch
SKU Number: Not Specified
Family: ThinkPad Z61m

So be carefull when posting the output ;-)
#1 Zhenech (Homepage) on 2007-03-14 13:18 (Reply)

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