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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