• Diff for "HowToIdentifyADevice"

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How to "identify" the devices (components, peripherals..) that are connected to your computer.

• CPU Processor

• USB USB Devices

• PCI PCI ; CardBus ; AGP ; PCI-Express, and other PCI compatibles

• PC Card often known as pcmcia

• Motherboard baseboard

• RAM Memory

• Serial Serial Interfaces

• System Computer Model

Help

The "HowToIdentifyADevice" pages above lists multiple way to identify your devices. The first in each page is the easier one, among the tools installed by default on a "Debian Desktop" installation. Often, you might want to install a suggest optional tool, which would be easier to use.

TODO

• pnp devices

• DMI / SMBIOS (not actually a device

• input devices

• HOWTO: using gnome or kde gui tool based on hal - Unless the tool is available by default in the "Debian Gnome Desktop", list it a the second choice.

Tools for hardware enumeration

Thanks to debtags, you can easily list tools to view and detect hardware :

debtags search "hardware::detection && use::viewing"

Also, you can visit the online tool http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/cloud/ which is more up-to-date. Currently it returns the following packages:

• cpufrequtils utilities to deal with the cpufreq Linux kernel feature

• cpuid Intel and AMD x86 CPUID display program

• discover hardware identification system

• dmidecode Dump Desktop Management Interface data

• hardinfo Displays system information

• kcontrol control center for KDE

• lshw information about hardware configuration (See http://ezix.org/project/wiki/HardwareLiSter)

• pcmcia-cs transitional package

• pcmciautils PCMCIA utilities for Linux 2.6

• usbutils Linux USB utilities

• usbview USB device viewer

• xutils X Window System utility programs metapackage

CategoryHardware