From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 2 16:39:31 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C952316A400 for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2007 16:39:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dr2867@pacbell.net) Received: from smtp105.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com (smtp105.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.198.204]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8B02013C441 for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2007 16:39:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dr2867@pacbell.net) Received: (qmail 49377 invoked from network); 2 Feb 2007 16:39:30 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=pacbell.net; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=h8pzJcGe8URDMR8WJLXsc8XK0H1Mhkh3JFMB1t+LR7PnrNz68bomkpDRQN4aLPE+gPIgRSJuU65hQchTglKo74HYQvgzM6SFItojDrSvPeS8Fa4tBHZqRulZ/t85s4BgqGDqqOKOuBL/LDU+gDlPgpjxg1sap/S/ZCsGKQODZjQ= ; Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.190?) (dr2867.business@pacbell.net@71.146.53.89 with plain) by smtp105.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 2 Feb 2007 16:39:30 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: TTyPWyIVM1nvLDPiPCdvwfFrn01tlivzgmYXq0xWhc48DawRXqi.siCA7_xsb1q3fZotPd60QTqLzqf88C82jVTGq5z4Pb9VLT1Ti5mW0frgtJiSRrtgyVuyeQI07a0RiAWYgKe0Bcho8SyhRqeX8PiW5KmIOBy.3iLKext3TuPWYaDUqkfH7VnjaaMv Message-ID: <45C36A2C.10408@pacbell.net> Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 08:43:24 -0800 From: Daniel Rudy User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11R6; UNIX; FreeBSD/i386 6.1-RELEASE-p7; en-US; ja-JP; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060910 SeaMonkey/1.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Danny Braniss References: <20070128181132.GR927@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20070201.113851.689651534.imp@bsdimp.com> <20070201104917.C82313@xorpc.icir.org> <20070201.124057.709402517.imp@bsdimp.com> <45C2D0F7.3000007@pacbell.net> <20070202070654.GD909@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: unique hardware identification X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 16:39:31 -0000 At about the time of 2/1/2007 11:33 PM, Danny Braniss stated the following: >> --ikeVEW9yuYc//A+q >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >> Content-Disposition: inline >> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >> >> On Thu, 2007-Feb-01 21:49:43 -0800, Daniel Rudy wrote: >>> None of this stuff appears on my system and I'm running 6.1. I can't >>> even find dmidump anywhere on the system or in ports either. >> Please elaborate. kenv(8) states that it first appeared in 4.1.1 and >> I don't recall seeing any reference to 'dmidump' in this thread. >> >> If you're referring to getting smbios data reported in kenv - that is >> up to your system/BIOS vendor: If they don't embed the information in >> the BIOS, FreeBSD can't report it. The response on my laptop is >> complete. My older whitebox desktops either don't have the data >> populated or don't report it at all. > > kenv appeared in 4.1, the smbios. stuff only appeared midway in 6.1 > > danny > That would explain it then. I'm running 6.1 release with the security updates, not stable. -- Daniel Rudy