[Gllug] Dell Service Tag number

[Alistair Mann]

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Thus spaketh devans at presscentre.net on Sunday 22 June 2003 7:08 pm:
> Hi, is there some Linux software to read the tag number?
>
> They have a webpage where you can point Internet Explorer to it which will
> display it via I think some java, but I really would prefer a small tool
> that extracted it from the BIOS, that is if one exists?

http://freshmeat.net/projects/dmidecode written by Alan Cox has what you need.

[root at svetlana dmidecode-2.1]# ./dmidecode |grep -i 'serial number'
                Serial Number: FXB1999

hth,
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Alistair
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