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On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Dan Nelson wrote:

> ports can print it.  As for the motherboard serial number, you'll
> probably need to open the case to get that, but try the "dmidecode"
> port.  My Asus board prints a serial number of "xxxxxxxxxxx", but other
> boards might actually put a real value in there.
>
>

If you have IBM hardware, you can use vpd(4)

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Matthew George
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