lshw -short
Michael Havens
bmike1 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 2 15:49:53 MST 2015
forgot to mention I got 2 posts on it.
:-)~MIKE~(-:
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 3:48 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> my blog has been up 1.5 hours and already has 11 views!
>
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 2:38 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> started a blog:
>> http://thesimplefromthesimple.blogspot.com/
>>
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 2:14 PM, Stephen Partington <cryptworks at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Well your paths of discovery are pretty educational. Getting them on a
>>> blog that could be indexed and searched could help some folks...
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 1:00 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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,
>>>>>
>>>>> Have you ever thought to Blog?
>>>>>
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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>
>>>>> 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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