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

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:

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