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Mar 25

I tested little bit of coding with php at the weekend. It is HEX index which is read from mysql database and generated on the fly.

Mar 08

To get Intel ICH8 work with older distributions like centos you have to give kernel couple of parameters:

pci=nommconf all-generic-ide

To get e1000 network adapter to work you have to compile it manually. Download drivers from Intel’s web page.

Mar 06

I noticed nice command today, dmidecode. It tells lots of information about hardware from linux. I.e bios version and what kind of memory the machine uses:

[root@sirius ~]# dmidecode | head -n 13
# dmidecode 2.7
SMBIOS 2.3 present.
51 structures occupying 1436 bytes.
Table at 0x000F2F50.

Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 20 bytes.
BIOS Information
        Vendor: Award Software, Inc.
        Version: ASUS A7A266 ACPI BIOS Revision 1009
        Release Date: 10/19/2001
        Address: 0xF0000
        Runtime Size: 64 kB
        ROM Size: 256 kB

The man page tells that you can also find information with prebuild strings like bios-version:

[root@sirius ~]# dmidecode -s bios-version
ASUS A7A266 ACPI BIOS Revision 1009

You can also query information with type. Like -t memory etc. Refer to man page.