Dmidecode

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dmidecode (DMI table decoder) is software that reports information about a system's hardware as described in SMBIOS. It is useful to determine information captured on motherboard's System Management BIOS. Information can contain manufacturer, module number, serial number, base board model, etc.

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USE flags

USE flags for sys-apps/dmidecode DMI (Desktop Management Interface) table related utilities

selinux

!!internal use only!! Security Enhanced Linux support, this must be set by the selinux profile or breakage will occur

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Emerge

root #emerge --ask sys-apps/dmidecode

Usage

Get system serial number

If the serial number tag is set in the DMI table, it can be extracted using the following command:

root #dmidecode -s system-serial-number

See also

• Lshw — a hardware detection utility for Linux.
• Lspci — contains various utilities dealing with the PCI bus (primarily lspci).
• Lsusb — a collection various utilities for querying the the Universal Serial Bus (USB).
• BIOS_Update#Gather_firmware_information