Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 04 Jan 2002 12:32:48 +0100 | From | Martin Knoblauch <> | Subject | Hardware Inventory [was: Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems?] |
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> From: Dave Jones (davej@suse.de) > Date: Wed Jan 02 2002 - 18:31:33 EST > > > On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > What's wrong with a startup routine that includes something like: > > > dmidecode > /var/run/dmi > > Absolutely nothing, and that also handily means it isnt setuid 8) > > Indeed, it's perfect. Except no distro does it (yet), but it's > definitly the best idea so far in this thread. >
seeing this thread - is there any serious work being spend on something like "hinv" on IRIX, which gives you a *complete* listing of your hardware? I have seen some attempts at shell and perl scripts, but none of them really is trustworthy.
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