Hey John, Good call, I hadn't thought of inputting a specific type to dmidecode, I always just grepped :-) I'll add that note to the FAQ.
Thanks, Al On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 14:11 -0800, John Gilmore wrote: > > I've added a section to the FAQ on the website to add a little bit of > > info to atleast point people in the right direction. There will also be > > some manpage updates in the next release. > > Thank you for the FAQ update. In doing some more trolling around, > I found this web page: > > > http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/querying-dumping-bios-from-linux-command-prompt.html > > which suggests that this command will dump info about an IPMI device, > if it exists in the DMI: > > dmidecode --type 38 > > It also produces a sample printout of what such IPMI information might > look like. > > You might want to put something similar into the FAQ, at least pointing > out that if dmidecode produces an entry of type 38, it's likely that > your motherboard has IPMI (but perhaps not the reverse). > > John -- Albert Chu [email protected] Computer Scientist High Performance Systems Division Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory _______________________________________________ Freeipmi-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-users
