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Author: Michael Havens
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Subject: Re: lshw -short
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 <> wrote:

> started a blog:
> http://thesimplefromthesimple.blogspot.com/
>
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 2:14 PM, Stephen Partington <>
> 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 <> 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 <>
>>> 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 <> 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 <> 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 <>
>>>>>> 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~(-:
>>>>>>>>
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