Felix Miata wrote:
On 2012/05/15 04:18 (GMT-0400) Per Jessen composed:
I probably already have the latest BIOS installed. I certainly downloaded the latest long ago, but don't know how to find out the BIOS version from a running Linux,
dmidecode.
Thanks. It produces a lot of information, but conspicuously absent is the version string.
It'll typically be in the first 20 lines, here are a couple of examples: # dmidecode 2.11 SMBIOS version fixup (2.33 -> 2.3). SMBIOS 2.3 present. 59 structures occupying 1940 bytes. Table at 0x000E0010. Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 20 bytes BIOS Information Vendor: IBM Version: 78ET63WW (1.53 ) Release Date: 02/09/2006 Address: 0xE0000 Runtime Size: 128 kB ROM Size: 1024 kB Characteristics: # dmidecode 2.11 SMBIOS 2.3 present. 134 structures occupying 3759 bytes. Table at 0x000EC000. Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 20 bytes BIOS Information Vendor: HP Version: P37 Release Date: 06/16/2008 Address: 0xF0000 Runtime Size: 64 kB ROM Size: 4096 kB -- Per Jessen, Zürich (13.7°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org