Hardware Database

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Mon Nov 10 14:08:58 UTC 2003


On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 12:51:37AM -0800, Maxwell Kanat-Alexander wrote:
 > On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 14:39, Dave Jones wrote:
 > > Beware that a lot of BIOS vendors put utter garbage in their DMI tables.
 > > 
 > > 		Dave
 > 
 > 	Do you know if there's any sense to this garbage? I've noticed a lot of
 > "System Manufacturer: System Manufacturer" sort of things -- is this a
 > common pattern, or do we just have to figure it out in some fuzzy way?

Sometimes its empty fields, sometimes random characters, sometimes
complete lies (Like saying it has a full length EISA slot in a laptop)

		Dave





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