Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to determine which mobo without opening case

2009-12-02 Thread Dale
David Relson wrote: On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:21:18 -0600 Dale wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 02 December 2009 01:25:16 David Relson wrote: For grins, whenever I restart my computer I run hwinfo, lshw, lspci, and a variety of other utilities and save the results.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to determine which mobo without opening case

2009-12-02 Thread David Relson
On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:21:18 -0600 Dale wrote: > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Wednesday 02 December 2009 01:25:16 David Relson wrote: > > > > > >> For grins, whenever I restart my computer I run hwinfo, lshw, > >> lspci, and a variety of other utilities and save the results. > >> > > > > G

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to determine which mobo without opening case

2009-12-01 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 02 December 2009 01:25:16 David Relson wrote: For grins, whenever I restart my computer I run hwinfo, lshw, lspci, and a variety of other utilities and save the results. Good God. I hope you don't do that more than once a decade. Just how long can a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to determine which mobo without opening case

2009-12-01 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 02 December 2009 01:25:16 David Relson wrote: > For grins, whenever I restart my computer I run hwinfo, lshw, lspci, > and a variety of other utilities and save the results. Good God. I hope you don't do that more than once a decade. Just how long can a life be? -- Rgds Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to determine which mobo without opening case

2009-12-01 Thread David Relson
On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:10:41 -0600 Harry Putnam wrote: > Neil Bothwick writes: > > > On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 08:37:49 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > > > >> How can I determine the motherboard make and model? I mean without > >> opening the case. > > > > sys-apps/lshw > > Good call Neil, I found that

[gentoo-user] Re: How to determine which mobo without opening case

2009-12-01 Thread Harry Putnam
Marcus Wanner writes: > On 11/30/2009 9:13 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Dan Cowsill writes: >> >> >>> As a matter of curiosity, why can't you open the case? >>> >> >> Aside from extreme laziness, I'd prefer to spend 2 seconds getting the >> info than first pulling the machine out of some p

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to determine which mobo without opening case

2009-12-01 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 11/30/2009 9:13 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: Dan Cowsill writes: As a matter of curiosity, why can't you open the case? Aside from extreme laziness, I'd prefer to spend 2 seconds getting the info than first pulling the machine out of some piled up mess of several machines, then getting

[gentoo-user] Re: How to determine which mobo without opening case

2009-11-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Dan Cowsill writes: > > As a matter of curiosity, why can't you open the case? Aside from extreme laziness, I'd prefer to spend 2 seconds getting the info than first pulling the machine out of some piled up mess of several machines, then getting my beat up old body into some contorted position w

[gentoo-user] Re: How to determine which mobo without opening case

2009-11-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick writes: > On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 08:37:49 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> How can I determine the motherboard make and model? I mean without >> opening the case. > > sys-apps/lshw Good call Neil, I found that tool shortly after posting. It gives as good as dmidecode, at least in my