Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to determine which mobo without opening case
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. Good God. I hope you don't do that more than once a decade. Just how long can a life be? Unless he changes hardware while it is shutdown. I don't think the drivers have ever changed on my system since I built it. I have had to add a couple, ethernet card and a SATA card, but other than that, it should be the same. I have to say tho, booting a CD and doing lspci -k or -v is the best way to get the right drivers. That is providing the hardware works when that is done. Dale Changing kernels can have undesired side effects. The log files help to figure out what went wrong.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to determine which mobo without opening case
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. Good God. I hope you don't do that more than once a decade. Just how long can a life be? Unless he changes hardware while it is shutdown. I don't think the drivers have ever changed on my system since I built it. I have had to add a couple, ethernet card and a SATA card, but other than that, it should be the same. I have to say tho, booting a CD and doing lspci -k or -v is the best way to get the right drivers. That is providing the hardware works when that is done. Dale Changing kernels can have undesired side effects. The log files help to figure out what went wrong. That's odd. I update my kernel fairly regular. It's always the same drivers for the same old hardware. I don't think the drivers has changed for my hardware since I built this system. My ethernet card used dmfe way back when I bought them and after many many kernel upgrades, it still uses dmfe. Same for the other hardware. I guess your mileage varies a lot. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to determine which mobo without opening case
On 11/30/2009 9:13 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: Dan Cowsill danthe...@gmail.com 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 where I can see inside, and finally just hoping I'll be able to see something worthwhile that isn't covered with monstor Tuniq 120 cooler or some such. So guess in short, it would be, aside from extreme laziness extreme laziness... Actually, I have found it difficult to find out the motherboard of a computer without taking the whole thing apart including the cooling fan (of course, it might just be me not knowing the correct way to check these types of things). It would be much easier to just compile and run a program, even if I had to ask here about which program to use. Marcus
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to determine which mobo without opening case
On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:10:41 -0600 Harry Putnam wrote: Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk 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 case. hwinfo and lspci provide similar info to lshw. They can be found in sys-apps/hwinfo and sys-apps/pciutil. For grins, whenever I restart my computer I run hwinfo, lshw, lspci, and a variety of other utilities and save the results. That way, when next something goes wrong, I'll have a record of when things went right and will (hopefully) be able to recover.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to determine which mobo without opening case
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
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 life be? Unless he changes hardware while it is shutdown. I don't think the drivers have ever changed on my system since I built it. I have had to add a couple, ethernet card and a SATA card, but other than that, it should be the same. I have to say tho, booting a CD and doing lspci -k or -v is the best way to get the right drivers. That is providing the hardware works when that is done. Dale :-) :-)
