uname Output

[Ian Stephen]

On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 18:48, Kurt Wall wrote:
> So, I execute 'uname -a' and I get the following:
> 
> $ uname -a
> Linux luther 2.6.10 #1 Sat Jan 15 01:43:34 EST 2005 i686 unknown
> unknown GNU/Linux
> 
> The two "unknown" fields are for the processor and hardware platform,
> which _ought_ to be pretty well known. The processor is an AMD Athlon
> 1200 and the hardware platform is IA32, or whatever Intel is calling
> their 32-bit x86 systems these days. 
> 
> How do I get this into my uname string?

Huh, I get

Linux localhost 2.6.3-7mdk #1 Wed Mar 17 15:56:42 CET 2004 i686 unknown
unknown

unknown processor (celeron 533) and hardware-platform and no
operating-system at all!  No wonder this thing's so slow.

IanS