From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 8 04:52:29 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 543A0106566B for ; Sun, 8 Jan 2012 04:52:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from carlj@peak.org) Received: from redcondor2.peak.org (redcondor2.peak.org [69.59.192.56]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4BAE8FC08 for ; Sun, 8 Jan 2012 04:52:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zmail-mta01.peak.org ([207.55.16.111]) by redcondor2.peak.org ({6c724cae-de34-4c5f-b615-3072b86419fa}) via TCP (outbound) with ESMTP id 20120108045228409 for ; Sun, 08 Jan 2012 04:52:28 +0000 X-RC-FROM: X-RC-RCPT: Received: from maple.localnet (unknown [207.55.106.132]) by zmail-mta01.peak.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1BF274924A2 for ; Sat, 7 Jan 2012 20:52:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from oak.localnet (oak.localnet [IPv6:2001:1938:266::6f:616b]) by maple.localnet (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A48161F12 for ; Sat, 7 Jan 2012 20:52:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from oak.localnet (localhost.localnet [127.0.0.1]) by oak.localnet (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14B0CCCA8 for ; Sat, 7 Jan 2012 20:52:20 -0800 (PST) Received: (from carlj@localhost) by oak.localnet (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id q084qJCE095916; Sat, 7 Jan 2012 20:52:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from carlj@peak.org) X-Authentication-Warning: oak.localnet: carlj set sender to carlj@peak.org using -f From: Carl Johnson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20120107150555.BYL92929@ms5.mc.surewest.net> <20120108003225.dc64798a.freebsd@edvax.de> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2012 20:52:19 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20120108003225.dc64798a.freebsd@edvax.de> (Polytropon's message of "Sun, 8 Jan 2012 00:32:25 +0100") Message-ID: <8762gm6bjw.fsf@oak.localnet> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD ver. 8.2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2012 04:52:29 -0000 Polytropon writes: > On Sat, 7 Jan 2012 15:05:55 -0800 (PST), leeoliveshackelford@surewest.net wrote: >> (1) Does anyone know how to get FreeBSD to read the >> motherboard name? This name, on an xw4400, starts with >> "HP" followed by a eleven digits, and is given in Windows >> XP as "Full Computer Name" on the "Computer Name" tab >> of the "System Properties" window. Among other purposes, >> this name is used by Novell network operating system to >> distinguish hosts on a subnet. > > The OS provides the output of dmesg and maybe the > output of pciconf -lv, as well as the sysctl value > dev.acpi.0.%desc which may contain the required > information. However, I'm sure there is a program > in the ports collection that can be used to obtain > that kind of information. > > Try: > > dmesg | grep "HP" > sysctl -a | grep "HP" > pciconf -lv | less > > and see if there's such a number mentioned. Maybe > you can also use acpidump to retrieve that information > from the ACPI datasets. The 'kenv' command seems to have the board name available as 'smbios.system.product'. The 'kenv' command without arguments will show all values, so you can make sure that is the proper variable. -- Carl Johnson carlj@peak.org