Linux hardware report

Dennis Kibbe dennisk at linuxquestions.net
Sun May 4 19:02:07 MST 2008


On Sun, 2008-05-04 at 18:46 -0700, Trent Shipley wrote:
> Windows can report on connected hardware (eg CPU and Motherboard make and 
> model).  Can Linux do this.  I would like to see if my BIOS needs an update, 
> but first I need to know about my motherboard.

Sure.

With any distro you can run from the commmandline "cat /proc/cpuinfo" &
"/sbin/lspci -v" or from the GNOME Panel
"System/Adminstration/Hardware".

Dennisk
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