• Diff for "HowToIdentifyADevice"

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

• [:HowToIdentifyADevice/CPU:CPU] Processor

• [:HowToIdentifyADevice/USB:USB] USB Devices

• [:HowToIdentifyADevice/PCI:PCI] PCI ; CardBus ; AGP ; PCI-Express, and other PCI compatibles

• [:HowToIdentifyADevice/PC Card:PC Card] often known as pcmcia

• [:HowToIdentifyADevice/Motherboard:Motherboard] baseboard

• [:HowToIdentifyADevice/RAM:RAM] Memory

• [:HowToIdentifyADevice/Serial:Serial] Serial Interfaces

• [:HowToIdentifyADevice/System: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

• 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