Dmidecode
From Gentoo Wiki
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.
Installation
USE flags
USE flags for sys-apps/dmidecode DMI (Desktop Management Interface) table related utilities
selinux
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!!internal use only!! Security Enhanced Linux support, this must be set by the selinux profile or breakage will occur |
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