Is there a way to identify the motherboard on a linux server?

There's no specific way to determine the motherboard type, but you can determine what hardware is installed (which is all you really need when it comes to configuring kernels and some software and such). At the prompt type:



That will show you what hardware is installed. You can view the chipset on the motherboard, sound card, network drivers, etc. etc.

How to identify whether dual channel is enabled or not?

The following was posted in another forum:

i found my motherboard name with this command

dmidecode

It worked for me. The other forum was here:

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=440128

The following was posted in another forum:

i found my motherboard name with this command

dmidecode

It worked for me. The other forum was here:

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=440128

By the way, as well as dmesg, you can get a list of devices on the PCI bus using this command:

lspci

lshw is also useful for getting this information.