dmidecode not working?

[Chris Kloiber]

On 03/11/2010 11:59 AM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> On 11/03/10 01:06 PM, Chris Kloiber wrote:
>    
>> Let me start by saying this may or may not be a Fedora issue.
>>
>> I recently purchased two Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P motherboards and am
>> running F12 on them. The marketing for these boards say they support
>> SMBIOS 2.4 and DMI, yet dmidecode says:
>>
>> [root at phoenix ~]# dmidecode
>> # dmidecode 2.10
>> # No SMBIOS nor DMI entry point found, sorry.
>>
>>      
> I have the exact same Mobo, and so far I have had no issues with either
> of the NICs. I have used Fedora 10 and 11 with this board. However I
> have not checked the BIOS version with dmidecode. I have done several
> BIOS upgrades since I bought the board. Gigabyte provides binary updates
> which you can use from a USB drive. Maybe you can try that?
>
> Sorry I can't help any more as I am 15 hrs away from my system and I
> won't be back before next week. Hopefully this was of some help.
>
>    
Ok. Odd. I did flash one of the systems. Not to upgrade, but in th hope 
of correcting possible corruption. Didn't help.

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Chris Kloiber