Re: determining hardware model

Ajai Khattri <[email protected]> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 20:35:14 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.release.guinness
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 04:28:09PM -0400, Rhon Fitzwater wrote:

> None of that gives me the hardware model.  Say I have a linux running 
> on a Dell PowerEdge 650.  I want to be able to run a command on that 
> machine and get back the hardware model which would be Dell PowerEdge 
> 650.

Ive never heard of this in the PC world - unless its special system software
written by the same people that built the hardware (Kind of like IBM ThinkPads
often have their own "config" utility).

No idea if this is even possible programmatically since every manufacturer
would be different no?

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Aj.
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