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hwinfo
Hardware Information Tool (hwinfo) is a small utility created by OpenSUSE to gather information on system hardware.
Installation
Emerge
hwinfo can be installed with a simple emerge:
root #
emerge --ask sys-apps/hwinfo
Configuration
Since the tool is so lightweight configuration is not necessary.
Usage
To probe for hardware information simply issue:
root #
hwinfo
To probe for all hardware information use:
root #
hwinfo +all
This usually takes longer, but provides oodles of information.
To shorten information to a more human-friendly format, add the --short
option to the command:
root #
hwinfo --short all
To specify a log file for hwinfo to write, use log=
. This is different from standard redirection, but should be used for hwinfo:
root #
hwinfo log=hardware.txt all
See also
- lspci - A tool for listing PCI information.
- lsusb - A tool for listing USB information.
- Hardware detection