RE: Determining Machine Make and Model

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Title: RE: Determining Machine Make and Model

Cool utility.  It is mentioned in the man page that the microcode update is volatile and needs to be uploaded on each system boot.  How can I automate that procedure?  Would the command be entered into /etc/rc.d/?

It is also mentioned in the documentation that one can use "rpm -ta <filename.tar.gz>" to install the program.  However, "rpm -t" is an unknown option.

-Channon

-----Original Message-----
From: Manfred Hollstein [mailto:manfredh@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 4:15 AM
To: psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Determining Machine Make and Model

On Fri, 04 Apr 2003, 00:13:46 +0200, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> >>>>> "CQ" == Channon Quillen <Quillen> writes:
>
> CQ> Is there any way to determine a machine's make and model by using
> CQ> a command line program?
>
> You could try using dmidecode:
> http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/dmidecode

Or you could install the kernel-utils RPM which contains dmidecode
amongst other utilities:

Name        : kernel-utils
Version     : 2.4
Release     : 8.28
Install date: Sat 08 Feb 2003 12:45:41 PM CET
Group       : System Environment/Base
Size        : 743921                           License: GPL
Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Fri 07 Feb 2003 06:10:31 PM CET, Key ID 219180cddb42a60e
Packager    : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>
URL         : http://www.urbanmyth.org/microcode/
Summary     : Kernel and Hardware related utilities
Description :
kernel-utils contains several utilities that can be used to control
the kernel or your machines hardware. Included are
* dmidecode - gives information about the bios and motherboard revisisons
* microcode_ctl - updates the microcode on Intel cpu's
* smartctl - monitor the health of your disks

HTH, cheers.

l8er
manfred



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