How do I check my hardware from CLI?

Amichai Rotman amichai at iglu.org.il
Sun Dec 10 12:16:23 UTC 2006


Thank you all,

I have lshw installed, but it isn't verbose enough. For instance: I wold
like to know how many mem sticks I have on the Motherboard (slot 1: X MB @ X
MHz and so on).

Any /proc branch for it?

Thanks!

On 12/7/06, Peter Garrett <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 7 Dec 2006 16:16:14 +0500
> "Waqas Toor" <waqasnasirtoor at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 12/7/06, Clive Menzies <clive at clivemenzies.co.uk> wrote:
> > > On (07/12/06 08:33), Amichai Rotman wrote:
> [snip]
> > > Install lshw - I'm not sure in which repository it resides.
> > >
> > http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/lshw
>
> umm.... it's already installed by default in Ubuntu - and why would you
> install a Debian package anyway ? Using Debian packages is deprecated
> ( not to mention potentially dangerous) .
>
> $ apt-cache rdepends lshw
> lshw
> Reverse Depends:
> ubuntu-standard
> ubuntu-standard
> |lshw-common
>
> "ubuntu-standard" is one of the metapackages for an Ubuntu
> install, which will pull in lshw .
>
> Peter
>
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