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Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 15:07:46 -0500
From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To: Maarten Sanders <maarfree@xs4all.nl>
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Subject: Re: Read bios settings
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In the last episode (Aug 23), Maarten Sanders said:
> Is it possible to read, e.g., bios version numbers from within
> FreeBSD?

Try ports/sysutils/dmidecode

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	Dan Nelson
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