Checking TPM information with Linux

I recently had a laptop that supposably had a TPM, although the BIOS clearly stated it was enabled Windows 7 was unable to see this. So I decided to see whether I could identify the TPM information via a Debian live CD instead:

sudo -s

We will enable the revelent modules:

modprobe tpm_bios modprobe tpm modprobe tpm_tis force=1 interrupts=0

Install the relevent packages:

apt-get install tpm-tools trousers

And finally we run the following command to return TPM version, vendor ID etc.:

sudo tpm_version

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