List the Hardware in a Machine
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Q:
What is in my computer? Is there a tool which lists the hardware in my computer?
A:
There is a tool called "hwinfo". It lists the hardware which is inside of you computer.
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- OK get real here. I ran the hwinfo command after su(ing) to root and piped the out put to less. After going through 3400+ lines I did find most of the hardware I think. Then I brought up YaST, selected hardware, then hardware info. A nice list similar to the Windows device manager comes up. Why are you all trying to be difficult - do you not want people to make the switch from Windows to Linux? The SuSE Linux Administration training manual recomends using YaST for many tasks like this, why didn't you?
- For first-timers, it would have been better to include the option "--short" to give a clearer view of the installed hardware. hwinfo --short | less