Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267864AbUI1OYy (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Sep 2004 10:24:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268039AbUI1OYy (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Sep 2004 10:24:54 -0400 Received: from rproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.170.193]:54123 "EHLO mproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267864AbUI1OXS (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Sep 2004 10:23:18 -0400 Message-ID: <5d6b657504092807233fe32310@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 16:23:18 +0200 From: Buddy Lucas Reply-To: Buddy Lucas To: Dave Jones , Brian McGrew , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Probing for System Model Information In-Reply-To: <20040928134705.GA11916@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20040928134705.GA11916@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1480 Lines: 36 Works for my Inspiron 5150. Thanks, didn't know that. Cheers, Buddy On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 14:47:05 +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). > > 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/