http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/lshw/lshw-2.08.01-1.el2.rf.i386.rpm

Should work


On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 13:30 +0200, Simon Jolle wrote: 
Hi CentOS users

I have here old CentOS 2.1 server on IBM Xseries 336. How to see
serial number and machine type?

It seems that "dmidecode" is not available for CentOS 2.1

cheers
Simon