From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Brian McGrew <Brian@doubledimension.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Probing for System Model Information
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 14:47:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040928134705.GA11916@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E6456D527ABC5B4DBD1119A9FB461E35019377@constellation.doubledimension.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-28 13:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-28 13:32 Probing for System Model Information Brian McGrew
2004-09-28 13:47 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2004-09-28 14:06 ` Matt Domsch
2004-09-28 14:23 ` Buddy Lucas
2004-09-28 13:51 ` Jesper Juhl
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