Not sure about the bios, but I used to have a laptop/docking station and I would just check the output of lspci for the existance of my docking station NIC card. Something like if lspci | grep "Ethernet controller line" > /dev/null; then configure xfree86 fi On Wed, 09 Apr 2003, Sadanapalli, Pradeep Kumar (MED, TCS) wrote: > Hi, > When I docked my laptop, and then booted my OS, then I went into BIOS > setup, > there I found one option saying he laptop is docked. > I am just wondering how to read this information from BIOS. > I am using Dell Latitude C610 laptop. Can anyone help me out or guide me > how to read/access BIOS data? > > I have got one more doubt. Say when my laptop is undocked and it is up > and running, > then if I dock it, will the BIOS data be updated runtime? Or is it only > at boot > time that it can read the docking status? > There is no much information I can find on the net on this docking topic > in linux. > If there is any useful information, somebody please tell me. > > Thanks _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list