Motherboard Name ?

[Bob Stockler]

Walter Vaughan wrote (on Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 10:55:04AM -0400):

| 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.

Works on SCO OSR6 as well.

Bob

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