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SubjectRe: Probing for System Model Information
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
>
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