Motherboard Name ?

[Bob Stockler]

Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote (on Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 02:01:14PM -0400):

| 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'.

True enough.

|                                  So which string is the name of my
| motherboard?

Search for it using the name you discovered executing 'hw -mv'.

Bob

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