Probing for System Model Information

Probing for System Model Information

[Brian McGrew]

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?

Thanks,

-brian

Brian D. McGrew        { brian@doubledimension.com || brian@visionpro.com }
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Re: Probing for System Model Information

[Dave Jones]

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

Re: Probing for System Model Information

[Matt Domsch]

On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 02:47:05PM +0100, Dave Jones 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).

Yes, we do. :-)  I've abbreviated the output to serve as an example.

# dmidecode
Handle 0x0000
        BIOS Information Block
                Vendor: Dell Computer Corporation
                Version: A08
Handle 0x0100
        System Information Block
                Vendor: Dell Computer Corporation
                Product: PowerEdge 2400
Handle 0x0300
        Chassis Information Block
                Serial Number: MY_SERIAL_NUMBER
                Asset Tag: 0000001


Thanks,
Matt

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Matt Domsch
Sr. Software Engineer, Lead Engineer
Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux
Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com

Re: Probing for System Model Information

[Buddy Lucas]

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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Re: Probing for System Model Information

[Jesper Juhl]

On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Brian McGrew wrote:

> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 06:32:31 -0700
> From: Brian McGrew <Brian@doubledimension.com>
> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Probing for System Model Information
> 
> 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?
> 

Can't answer your question, sorry, but have you considered asking Dell 
that question (and then share the info later) ?

--
Jesper Juhl