Re: RH to Debian conversion help

[Paul Mackinney <paul@mackinney.net>]

Derrick 'dman' Hudson declaimed:
> | 2. hwconf - shows what hardware is in place
> 
> I don't think there is an equivalent.  What functionality do you need
> out of this?  The 'lspci' command will list the PCI devices.  Other
> hardware info, as seen by the kernel, can be found in /proc.  There
> are probably other sources of information, depending on what you are
> looking for.
> 

Debian certainly doesn't have anything like RH's kudzu (one of the more
impressive featres of RH, IMO). The 'modconf' command run as root allows
you to dynamically enable/disable kernel modules, and 'dmesg' will print
all the startup messages, which typically show lots of device info.

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Paul Mackinney
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