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

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:

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