Motherboard indentification tools for linux ?

[TheSwede]

Don't sure if this is the right forum to post in, but as the topic says, is there any motherboard identification tools for Linux ? I have tried googling but I didn't find anything (maybe my searchstring was bad).

Sincerly,

//The Swede

[jiteo]

lspci will give you devices on the PCI bus, including the host bridge (which I think is the shouthbridge on the motherboard, but don't take my word for it). But exactly do you want identified? Chipset? BIOS?

[TheSwede]

BIOS ID-string preferable...

//The Swede

[jiteo]

Ahh. I don't know of any, but you can always write down the ID string while the computer is booting up.

[TheSwede]

Yes, that would be easy - if I could reboot the computer (server)! If I could identify the BIOS ID-string then I could take down the server for maintence (newer CPU, bigger HDD, more RAM) - but I can't take it down just for look at the BIOS ID-string!

I'll keep looking...

//The Swede

[jiteo]

Ahh. Server. Well what distro you use? There's package dmidecode for Debian Testing/Unstable http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/dmidecode.

[jiteo]

Doesn't give you the BIOS ID string though ...

[TheSwede]

Ah. You saved my day!

I'll download it from http://www.nongnu.org/dmidecode/ (couse I have different distributions on different servers).

Sincerly,

//The Swede