Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 28 Sep 2004 16:23:18 +0200 | From | Buddy Lucas <> | Subject | Re: Probing for System Model Information |
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Works for my Inspiron 5150. Thanks, didn't know that.
Cheers, Buddy
On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 14:47:05 +0100, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 06:32:31AM -0700, Brian McGrew wrote: > > Good morning All! > > > > We exclusively ship Dell boxes with our hardware. However, we use several different models, 1400's, 1600's, 2350's, 4600's and so on. I need to write a small program to probe the system for the model information since I don't seem to find it in the logs anywhere. > > > > I know the model info is in there somewhere and it's accessible because if I look on the default factory installed version of Windows, it's listed. > > > > Does anyone know how to do this or can you point me to one that's already done or some samples? > > You can find this info in the DMI tables assuming Dell filled > them in with sensible data (which they usually do). > > dmidecode will read these tables from userspace. > > Dave > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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