lshw -short

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Mon Feb 2 12:18:02 MST 2015


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On 02/02/2015 02:10 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
> thank you oh wise ones
>
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 3:08 AM, Todd Millecam <tyggna at gmail.com 
> <mailto:tyggna at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Also, if you want to manipulate the way the kernel uses a device,
>     you can usually find it under a directory like:
>
>     /proc/bus/
>     or
>     /sys/bus/
>
>     Using this, you can (often) deactivate a device and if the
>     motherboard supports it, pull it out and replace it without
>     rebooting the machine.  Very handy for replacing PCI raid cards
>     and faulty RAM without incurring any downtime.
>
>
>
>     On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 2:47 AM, James Mcphee <jmcphe at gmail.com
>     <mailto:jmcphe at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         which bus and slot it sits in.  like if you wanted to know
>         which card or whatnot to yank.
>
>         On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 1:48 AM, Michael Havens
>         <bmike1 at gmail.com <mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>             I found the answer!
>
>             there is a phrase in the lshw manpage that says -short is
>             "very  much  like the output of HP-UX's ioscan.'
>
>             A websearch for 'HP-UX's ioscan' brings up it's man page
>             which states:
>
>
>             /hw path/ A numerical string of hardware components, notated
>             sequentially from the bus address to the device
>             address. Typically, the initial number is
>             appended by slash (*/*), to represent a bus
>             converter (if required by your machine), and
>             subsequent numbers are separated by periods (*.*).
>             Each number represents the location of a hardware
>             component on the path to the device.
>
>
>             Could someone explain to me what 'the location of a
>             hardware component' means?
>
>             :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
>             On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 1:36 AM, Michael Havens
>             <bmike1 at gmail.com <mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>                 I was wondering, I can run lshw with the -short option
>                 and it gives me a list:
>
>                 H/W path  Device  Class  Description
>                 ============================================
>                 system Computer
>                 /0  bus  Motherboard
>                 /0/1  memory 3888MiB System memory
>                 /0/6  processor      AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+
>                 /0/0  memory         RAM memory
>                 etc...
>
>                 does anyone know what a 'H/W path' is?
>                 :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
>
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