Re: Probing for System Model Information

[Buddy Lucas]

Works for my Inspiron 5150. Thanks, didn't know that.


Cheers,
Buddy


On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 14:47:05 +0100, Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 06:32:31AM -0700, Brian McGrew wrote:
>  > Good morning All!
>  >
>  > We exclusively ship Dell boxes with our hardware.  However, we use several different models, 1400's, 1600's, 2350's, 4600's and so on.  I need to write a small program to probe the system for the model information since I don't seem to find it in the logs anywhere.
>  >
>  > I know the model info is in there somewhere and it's accessible because if I look on the default factory installed version of Windows, it's listed.
>  >
>  > Does anyone know how to do this or can you point me to one that's already done or some samples?
>  
> You can find this info in the DMI tables assuming Dell filled
> them in with sensible data (which they usually do).
> 
> dmidecode will read these tables from userspace.
> 
>                 Dave
> 
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