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Detecting hardware from outside the box

Thursday, February 03 2005 @ 12:05 PM EST
Contributed by: glosser

The GNU/Linux operating system comes with many tools. Here we learn about the ones that can identify our hardware, amongst other things.
Linux comes with several good utilities for getting detailed information on what's inside the box. Here are three recipes for getting information from lspci, dmesg, and /proc.

This article is excerpted from the recently published book "The Linux Cookbook."
Detecting hardware with lspci
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