Re: Retrieve hardware and modules info..
On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 10:37:34AM +1000, Lubos Rendek wrote:
> HI guys,
>
> Suppose that I have a some laptop in my hands and I would like to find
> out what hardware this laptop has and what is supported by Debian out
> of the box by which modules. Is there any tool which will be able to
> retrieve all important hardware information. I know that this can be
> achieved by series of commands like lsmod, lspci, lsusb or cat
> /proc/*files* and etc. I'm just wondering if there is a simpler way
> which I do not know about to get this job done.
>
> thank you
>
The "discover" package comes with an automatic install script. And, for what
you can't get done easily :-) :
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO/
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Kind Regards,
Freeman
http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/
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