Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 09:33:02 +0200 From: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Daniel Rudy <dr2867@pacbell.net> Subject: Re: unique hardware identification Message-ID: <E1HCsus-0001RB-6u@cs1.cs.huji.ac.il> In-Reply-To: <20070202070654.GD909@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> 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>
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> > --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
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