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Re: [LUG] listing hardware

 

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On 07/05/12 21:04, paul sutton wrote:

> which lists stacks of hardware information for the computer,  this
> could be very useful to people here who need help but are unsure
> what hardware they have.  you need to be root or use sudo to run
> it.
> 
> 
> Don't forget that dmidecode > hardware will dump the out put to a
> file so if need be it can be printed  or attached to an e-mail.

dmidecode takes it's information from the Desktop Management Interface
section of the BIOS. Which dosn't necessarily correspond with the
hardware. It also includes things such as machine serial nubers.

There is also "lshw" which as well as looking at the BIOS also probes
the busses.
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