The DMI scanner is getting this info from somewhere on the mainboard then, I take it. Everyone that's using Suse 7.X right out of the box (kernel NOT upgraded)...their kernel should be using DMI scanner in verbose mode then? If so, they should be seeing mainboard data when they use 'dmesg | grep "Board", right? So far, I think I'm the only one here who has seen his mainboard data in 'dmesg'. Then again, I'm probably the only one here who's running Suse 7.1 with the STOCK kernels. :o) -- Ron Sinclair @ http://www.wigglit.com
The feature being described is the DMI scanner in the kernel, which on some versions (Mostly -ac kernels) was set to verbose, and printed such info during boot.
You can grab a userspace tool to print these tables from ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/alan/DMI/dmidecode.c
(Needs to run as root)
regards,
Dave.