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On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:10:41 -0600 |
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Harry Putnam wrote: |
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> Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> writes: |
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> > On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 08:37:49 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: |
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> >> How can I determine the motherboard make and model? I mean without |
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> >> opening the case. |
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> > sys-apps/lshw |
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> Good call Neil, I found that tool shortly after posting. It gives as |
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> good as dmidecode, at least in my case. |
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hwinfo and lspci provide similar info to lshw. They can be found in |
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sys-apps/hwinfo and sys-apps/pciutil. |
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For grins, whenever I restart my computer I run hwinfo, lshw, lspci, |
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and a variety of other utilities and save the results. |
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That way, when next something goes wrong, I'll have a record of when |
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things went right and will (hopefully) be able to recover. |
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