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Motherboard indentification tools for linux ?
Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2004 9:58 am
by 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
Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2004 5:32 pm
by 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?
Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2004 7:02 pm
by TheSwede
BIOS ID-string preferable...
//The Swede
Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2004 9:10 pm
by jiteo
Ahh. I don't know of any, but you can always write down the ID string while the computer is booting up.
Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2004 9:45 am
by 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
Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2004 3:15 pm
by jiteo
Ahh. Server. Well what distro you use? There's package dmidecode for Debian Testing/Unstable
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/dmidecode.
Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2004 3:19 pm
by jiteo
Doesn't give you the BIOS ID string though ...
Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2004 3:28 pm
by 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
