How to Identify the BIOS Version

[David Curry]

Dave Gavin wrote:

>On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 09:48:32 -0500
>David Curry <dsccable at comcast.net> wrote:
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>>Michael Scottaline wrote:
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>>>On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 01:03:38 -0500
>>>David Curry <dsccable at comcast.net> insightfully noted:
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>>>DC>My system (FC-2) doesn't seem to recognize "dmidecode" as a command.  
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>>>It will if you run it as root (or sudo) from /usr/sbin/dmidecode
>>>HTH,
>>>Mike
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>>Thanks, Mike.  I tried exactly what you suggest.  The result was a 
>>system response advising that dmidecode was not a bash command.
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>>Paul Howarth may have provided the answer to my riddle in noting that 
>>dmidecode is an FC-3 kernel facility.  I am using FC-2.
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>  dmidecode is part of kernel-utils, try "yum install kernel-utils" and it's
>been around since at least 7.3.
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>Dave
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Thanks Dave.