Querying bios settings from Linux

[Paul Lussier]

"Ben Scott" <dragonhawk at gmail.com> writes:

>   Okay, so what's the make and model of motherboard, then?  :)

dmidecode reveals:

    # dmidecode --type 2
    # dmidecode 2.8
    SMBIOS 2.4 present.

    Handle 0x0002, DMI type 2, 8 bytes
    Base Board Information
            Manufacturer: Supermicro
            Product Name: X7DBT
            Version: PCB Version
            Serial Number: 0123456789

>   So far, I've found this, which looks like it might be promising:
>
> http://linux.dell.com/libsmbios/main/index.html

Maybe.  It doesn't look so strong on the querying side yet aside from
some standard stuff like vendor strings.  Long-term it could be quite
promising though.
-- 
Seeya,
Paul