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dmidecode: Finding Out Hardware Details Without Opening The Computer Case

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dmidecode is a tool for dumping a computer's DMI (some say SMBIOS) table contents in a human-readable format. This table contains a description of the system's hardware components, as well as other useful pieces of information such as serial numbers and BIOS revision. Thanks to this table, you can retrieve this information without having to probe for the actual hardware.

dmidecode is a tool for dumping a computer's DMI (some say SMBIOS) table contents in a human-readable format. This table contains a description of the system's hardware components, as well as other useful pieces of information such as serial numbers and BIOS revision. Thanks to this table, you can retrieve this information without having to probe for the actual hardware.

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Comments (5)

ColonelPanik ·
Falko Timme just made my life better! If you don't know about dmidecode just read the article and enjoy. If you did know about this you should have told me a long time ago.
tuxchick ·
I'm sorry. I learned about it some months ago and didn't tell you. I will punish me by letting my beer get warm before drinking it.

It is a great little utility, and it's on the awsome SystemRescueCD, which I think is the champion of all bootable rescue Linuxes. Haven't found anything yet it can't do. Except chill beer.
Scott_Ruecker ·
Very very cool! I went root in a shell, punched it in and BAM! Hardware info to my hearts desire. Easy on the eyes and mind as advertised too.

I'm so glad I don't know everything; I like learning new stuff. I'm gonna have to add that one to the 'repertoire'..

;-)
gus3 ·
Scott, wait until you discover debugfs.

Just don't "cat /debug/usbmon/0u" (it always panics my system).
techiem2 ·
Sweet. Now I've got a nice file with lotsa interesting info.

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