How to learn hardware serial no. using a script?

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Hello,
I want to learn my motherboard serial but I do not have the box. I am too lazy right now to open the computer case and moreover I do not think they write the serial on MB itself.

So my question is -
how to learn the serial using programming? Or is there any application already built-in suse meeting that purpose?

Thanks a lot for your help!
SDA

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> how to learn the serial using programming? Or is there any application
> already built-in suse meeting that purpose?

i don’t think they normally write the serial number into the
firmware…but, you can try

YaST > Hardware > Hardware Information

good luck, but mine shows:

Board Info: #2
Manufacturer “TBD”
Product “K8Upgrade-760GX”
Version: “1.00”
Serial: “00000000”

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genesup wrote:
> Hello,
> I want to learn my motherboard serial but I do not have the box. I am
> too lazy right now to open the computer case and moreover I do not think
> they write the serial on MB itself.
>
> So my question is -
> how to learn the serial using programming? Or is there any application
> already built-in suse meeting that purpose?
>
> Thanks a lot for your help!
> SDA
>
>

Not ALL systems embed the serial number into the bios/dmi, but if
it’s there you can find it by doing:

hwinfo --bios

or (on Red Hat and others for example)

dmidecode

You’ll have to grep out the serial number.

You can sometimes get to dmi data (again, if available) via
snmp.

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YES!
Thank you very much for this. It worked out!
I`ve found my MB information and serial number. It is not a fake because I had already opened the case and read the numbers from the white strip on the edge of the MB. The only problem is that hwinfo serial is given in a quite different order that on the MB (I mean not the number itself, ofcource, but different sections of numbers).