information about BIOS and stuff

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

Last night I was talking to David Tilbrook about how to figure out what 
notebook he has.  I thought the following utilities might be worth 
pointing out:

dmidecode: dumps the DMI table from your BIOS (system ROM)

biosdecode: used to be part of dmidecode but was broken out

vpddecode: dumps "vital product data" on IBM and Lenovo computers

ownership: dumps ownership tag in compaq computers

Do read the manpages.

This article (found by google) looks interesting
  http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/querying-dumping-bios-from-linux-command-prompt.html
--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://gtalug.org/
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists