lshw -short

[Michael Havens]

why would I blog? I don't know anything..... unless it were a means to
teach me.... errr.... reinforce what I've learned.

:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 12:18 PM, John J. Macey <jjmacey at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Mike,
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> Have you ever thought to Blog?
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>  On 02/02/2015 02:10 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
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> thank you oh wise ones
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> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 3:08 AM, Todd Millecam <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> 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>
>>> 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>
>>>> 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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