Motherboard Name ?

[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

Bob Stockler propounded (on Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 11:08:35AM -0400):
| 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.

On my Proliant, I see a great deal of junk, and a lot of text strings, all
of which are shown by 'hw -mv'.  So which string is the name of my
motherboard?


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JP
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