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On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 10:21 -0400, Michael Mol wrote: |
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> On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > On Monday 04 Jun 2012 13:57:11 Michael Mol wrote: |
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> >> On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> >> > On Saturday 02 Jun 2012 23:50:58 pk wrote: |
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> >> [snip] |
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> >> |
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> >> >> I'm putting on my tinfoil hat now and I'm going to pretend it's |
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> >> >> raining... :-/ |
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> >> > |
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> >> > Can I please join you if you have a spare hat? |
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> >> > |
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> >> > On a 3 year old Dell laptop manufactured by the famous and well known |
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> >> > Winbond Electronics </sarcasm> I see this under lshw: |
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> >> > |
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> >> > *-remoteaccess UNCLAIMED |
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> >> > vendor: Intel |
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> >> > physical id: 2 |
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> >> > capabilities: outbound |
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> >> > but have not found a way of interrogating it or in anyway accessing it to |
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> >> > understand what it is or does ... |
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> >> > |
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> >> > Note, this is not a UEFI machine: |
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> >> > |
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> >> > capabilities: smbios-2.6 dmi-2.6 vsyscall32 |
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> >> |
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> >> What proc? |
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> > If you mean what /proc is this remoteaccess thing in, I don't really know. |
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> > How can I find it? |
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> Sorry...what CPU do you have? |
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> cat /proc/cpuinfo |
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Maybe this? - |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Platform_Management_Interface |
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There is a kernel interface (under power management I think) and I seem |
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to remember some of my recent motherboards come with it. If you have a |
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dell, look up iDRECV which does something similar. Its not only the |
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cpu, but the motherboard you need to worry about. |
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BillK |