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On Wednesday 06 Jun 2012 02:14:45 Bill Kenworthy wrote: |
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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 |
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> > >> > known |
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> > >> > |
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> > >> > Winbond Electronics </sarcasm> I see this under lshw: |
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> > >> > *-remoteaccess UNCLAIMED |
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> > >> > |
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> > >> > vendor: Intel |
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> > >> > physical id: 2 |
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> > >> > capabilities: outbound |
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> > >> > |
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> > >> > but have not found a way of interrogating it or in anyway accessing |
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> > >> > it to understand what it is or does ... |
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> > >> > |
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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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> > > |
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> > > If you mean what /proc is this remoteaccess thing in, I don't really |
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> > > know. How can I find it? |
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> > |
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> > Sorry...what CPU do you have? |
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> > |
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> > cat /proc/cpuinfo |
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> |
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> Maybe this? - |
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Platform_Management_Interface |
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> |
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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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> |
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> BillK |
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This is my CPU, a first generation i7: |
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cat /proc/cpuinfo |
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processor : 0 |
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vendor_id : GenuineIntel |
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cpu family : 6 |
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model : 30 |
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model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU Q 720 @ 1.60GHz |
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stepping : 5 |
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microcode : 0x4 |
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cpu MHz : 933.000 |
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cache size : 6144 KB |
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physical id : 0 |
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siblings : 8 |
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core id : 0 |
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cpu cores : 4 |
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apicid : 0 |
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initial apicid : 0 |
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fpu : yes |
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fpu_exception : yes |
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cpuid level : 11 |
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wp : yes |
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flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov |
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pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp lm |
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constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc |
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aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm |
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sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm ida dts tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid |
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bogomips : 3192.11 |
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clflush size : 64 |
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cache_alignment : 64 |
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address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual |
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power management: |
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You note that "power management:" above is empty. |
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grep-ping the /proc tree for remoteaccess does not bring up anything. |
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-- |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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