unique hardware identification

[Daniel Rudy]

At about the time of 2/1/2007 11:33 PM, Danny Braniss stated the following:
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>> On Thu, 2007-Feb-01 21:49:43 -0800, Daniel Rudy wrote:
>>> None of this stuff appears on my system and I'm running 6.1.  I can't
>>> even find dmidump anywhere on the system or in ports either.
>> Please elaborate.  kenv(8) states that it first appeared in 4.1.1 and
>> I don't recall seeing any reference to 'dmidump' in this thread.
>>
>> If you're referring to getting smbios data reported in kenv - that is
>> up to your system/BIOS vendor:  If they don't embed the information in
>> the BIOS, FreeBSD can't report it.  The response on my laptop is
>> complete.  My older whitebox desktops either don't have the data
>> populated or don't report it at all.
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> kenv appeared in 4.1, the smbios. stuff only appeared midway in 6.1
> 
> danny
> 

That would explain it then.  I'm running 6.1 release with the security
updates, not stable.
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Daniel Rudy