Re: how can I find which motherboard I have and the mac address?

2008-05-02 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Amos Shapira wrote: BTW - what about writing something to the NVRAM. A quick debian package search found only nvram-wakeup but maybe that's enough. --Amos Writing something to nvram is as simple as echo something /dev/nvram. That is not the trick. The trick is writing something to

Re: how can I find which motherboard I have and the mac address?

2008-05-02 Thread sara fink
Bingo, that's a very good idea. I believe nvram-wakeup will suffice. I will read more about it. On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 8:25 AM, Amos Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 2:38 PM, sara fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was trying to find as much as possible identification in

Re: how can I find which motherboard I have and the mac address?

2008-05-02 Thread shimi
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:08 AM, sara fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to know what motherboard I have and the mac address of the laptop. How can I find the information. May I suggest a more user-friendly tool for finding information about hardware than dmidecode that was already

Re: how can I find which motherboard I have and the mac address?

2008-05-02 Thread sara fink
Thanks. will try this one as well. On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 5:14 PM, shimi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:08 AM, sara fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to know what motherboard I have and the mac address of the laptop. How can I find the information. May I

how can I find which motherboard I have and the mac address?

2008-05-01 Thread sara fink
I would like to know what motherboard I have and the mac address of the laptop. How can I find the information. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command

Re: how can I find which motherboard I have and the mac address?

2008-05-01 Thread Matan Ziv-Av
On Fri, 2 May 2008, sara fink wrote: I would like to know what motherboard I have and the mac address of the laptop. How can I find the information. Motherboard: sometimes this information is in the DMI, so try dmidecode | grep -A 5 Base Board or simply check the whole output of dmidecode.

Re: how can I find which motherboard I have and the mac address?

2008-05-01 Thread sara fink
Thanks, I installed dmidecode and ran the command, plus checked the whole output. About the mac address, I know ifconfig. I wanted to know the Mac address of the motherboard. Also, I am more interested in mac address of the usb ports, firewire. This is the information I got for the motherboard:

Re: how can I find which motherboard I have and the mac address?

2008-05-01 Thread Ohad Levy
Hi Sara, as far as I'm aware, there is no such thing as mac address for a mother board or usb ports. Mother board usually have a serial number, you could find it with dmidecode. more usb information you could find with lsusb and lspci commands. for firewire I'm not so sure, but I assume that if

Re: how can I find which motherboard I have and the mac address?

2008-05-01 Thread sara fink
Thanks. From the dmidecode I found the serial number to be 00. I think it's not normal. And for the bios, I will check when I boot again. I know lsusb and lspci. lsusb shows id when something is plugged in (but this doesn't work for me anymore ;-( because all the usb ports fried). I was

Re: how can I find which motherboard I have and the mac address?

2008-05-01 Thread Amos Shapira
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 2:38 PM, sara fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was trying to find as much as possible identification in order to know when the service will claim that motherboard was changed, that indeed it was changed. Then, in addition to the high tech methods, you can probably