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 * DebSearch:lspci - lists the pci devices.
 * DebSearch:lsusb - lists the usb devices.
 * DebSearch:pciutils - lspci : lists the pci devices.
 * DebSearch:usbutils - lsusb : lists the usb devices.

The most widely used hardware autodetection and probing tool is ["Kudzu"].

Knoppix hwsetup-knoppix component is based off of Kudzu. This component loads modules, generates /dev links, and basically provides the data that discover handles in the current debian configuration scripts.

Kudzu stores in kwdata the information about the detected hardware.

Tools

Another hardware detection tools, some of them used by Kudzu:

  • DebSearch:pciutils - lspci : lists the pci devices.

  • DebSearch:usbutils - lsusb : lists the usb devices.

  • mdetect - detects mouses in ["XWindow"].
  • read-edid - detects VGA plug and play monitors, used by ["XFree86"]
  • sndconfig - detects sound cards.
  • hotplug - detects pci and usb devices when are connect / disconnected.
  • hwdate is used by kudzu.
  • nictools-pci, detects ethernet pci cards.
  • nictools-nopci, detects ethernet no-pci cards.

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