Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 21:17:54 -0500 From: Bruce Burden <brucegb@realtime.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why is dmidecode failing? Message-ID: <20070419021754.GA51543@tigerfish2.my.domain> In-Reply-To: <20070418161516.GF70813@dan.emsphone.com> References: <1176907072_43299@ruth.realtime.net> <20070418151325.GK85859@tigerfish2.my.domain> <20070418161516.GF70813@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 11:15:16AM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Apr 18), Bruce Burden said:
> >
> > ===> Installing for hal-0.5.8.20070403
> > ===> hal-0.5.8.20070403 depends on file: /usr/local/share/pciids/pci.ids - found
> > ===> hal-0.5.8.20070403 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/python - found
> > ===> hal-0.5.8.20070403 depends on executable: dmidecode - not found
>
> This says that dmidecode isn't in your path. Make sure that
> /usr/local/sbin is in your path, since that's where dmidecode is
> installed.
>
Sigh. So simple. So obvious. So infuriating when it
does not work! Thank you, I do not normally have /usr/local/
sbin in my path, obviously.
Bruce
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