Motherboard Name ?

[Walter Vaughan]

Bob Bailin wrote:
> "Frank & Michelle Costa" <fcosta10 at comcast.net> wrote in message 
>>Is there a command to get the name of the motherboard  on a system without physically 
>>opening the box ? 

> Logged in as root, you can try:
> 
> dd if=/dev/mem bs=64k skip=14 count=2 | strings | less

Just for giggles I tried it on RHEL4.4 and FreeBSD6.2 and it worked just as 
good. I kinda wonder what a Intel Core CPU Mac would look like...

That snippet is a keeper.

--
Walter