[ltp] Help needed: DMI data

Onno Benschop linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sat, 29 Jul 2006 16:35:01 +1000


On 25/07/06 21:36, Shem Multinymous wrote:
> On 7/25/06, Onno Benschop <onno@itmaze.com.au> wrote:
>> Hmm, the command doesn't work for me under Debian:
>>
>> /usr/sbin/dmidecode: invalid option -- s
>
> What's your dmidecode version? I'm using 2.7. The latest one is at
> http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/dmidecode/dmidecode-2.8.tar.g=
z.
>
> You can also extract the information from a simple "dmidecode" output.
> The most important bits are shown by
> # dmidecode | egrep -iA4 'system info|embedded cont'
>
>
>  Shem
I've manually constructed the string for my R52, the wiki editor preview =

looked broken when I added it, so I chickened out in hitting the "Save=20
page" button :-)


| {{R52}} 18586MM
|| IBM || 18586MM || ThinkPad R52 || IBM || 18586MM || Not Available ||=20
IBM || Not Available || IBM || 70ET40WW (1.04 ) || 06/02/2005
|| <nowiki>Handle 0x0029, DMI type 11, 5 bytes  String 1: IBM ThinkPad=20
Embedded Controller -[70HT26WW-1.03    ]-</nowiki> ||
|-

The dmidecode version in my debian box is 2.6


--=20
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