How to obtain serial number in linux

Jim Gettys jg at laptop.org
Wed Jun 20 12:21:25 EDT 2007


The latest builds include support for the device tree, which includes
the SN information.  It's also under the battery, but that is a pain
when you have many machines.  So it should become easy soon.
                           
                           - Jim


On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 12:40 -0100, Emiliano Pastorino wrote:
> Hi, everyone!
> I need to get the XO serial number from console. Is it possible? The
> only way i found was from boot screen, but i need to match serial
> number with mac address. I can do it by hand, but... you know... doing
> that with thousands of XO it´s just a bit hard 
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