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On Jan 27, 2007, at 23:35 , Daniel Rudy wrote:

At about the time of 12/19/2006 7:19 AM, Devon H. O'Dell stated the
following:
2006/12/19, Koen Martens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Hi All,

I was wondering, if something like a unique hardware identification
would be possible on FreeBSD.

[snip]

If the machine is a PXE-compliant device [2], it should have a GUID/ UUID [1] available. This can be exposed by sysutil/hal [3] via the smbios.system.uuid field. The sysutil/hal port, though, requires a decent amount of dependencies. You might want to give the pkg install a try first. (I happened to have a lot of those ports installed, so it was not an issue for me.)

# dbus-daemon --system
# hald --verbose=yes
16:39:24.418 [I] hald.c:469: hal 0.5.8
16:39:24.418 [I] hald.c:478: Will daemonize
16:39:24.418 [I] hald.c:479: Becoming a daemon
# hal-get-property --udi /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer --key smbios.system.uuid
64837263-8462-7493-1212-FFFFFFFFFFFF

Cheers,

Jon

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globally_Unique_Identifier
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preboot_Execution_Environment
[3] http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/hal/
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