How can I find motherboards model number in 11.04

Mark Widdicombe markwiddicombe at gmail.com
Mon Oct 17 07:32:38 UTC 2011


On 17 October 2011 09:29, Doug <dmcgarrett at optonline.net> wrote:

> On 10/16/2011 10:43 PM, Abhishek Dixit wrote:
>
>> How can  I find model number or other related things about the mother
>> board on my laptop.
>> I run only Ubuntu so unable to use CPU-Z which works in Windows.
>> So what are my options in Natty?
>>
>>  Once there was an Ubuntu program that produced a file called
> myhardware.txt.  I don't remember what it was called--
> I remember running it from a live CD on a couple of machines, including my
> Windows machine, and it spits out
> everything.  I suggest using your find command in Dolphin, or maybe on the
> cli, and look for *hardware* (with the
> asterisks).  I'm not sure if the program has that name, or if another
> program writes the resulting file to the drive.
> I have Ubuntu on a partition here, but I'm running pclos.  Going to that
> partition and doing sudo cat /(path)/myhardware.txt
> and I got the file.  I just don't know if it started fresh, or if it had
> stored the file from running the program way back when.
> The ouput starts like this:
>
> <snip>

lshw
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