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 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 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~(-: >> > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- James McPhee jmcphe@gmail.com