Gavin Seddon posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted
below,  on Fri, 16 Dec 2005 12:40:26 +0000:

> On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 18:36 -0800, Steve Herber wrote:
>> Besides lspci and lsusb, I like lshw.
>> 
>>      sys-apps/lshw
>> 
>> >From the man page:
>> 
>> lshw is a small tool to extract detailed information  on  the  hardware
>> configuration of the machine. It can report exact memory configuration,
>> firmware version, mainboard configuration, CPU version and speed, cache
>> configuration,  bus speed, etc. on DMI-capable x86 or IA-64 systems and
>> on some PowerPC machines (PowerMac G4 is known to work).
> Hi,
> 'lshw' not found.

It's  "not found" because you haven't merged it.  sys-apps/lshw indicates
that "lshw" is a package in the "sys-apps" category in the portage tree.
Thus, you have to "emerge -a lshw" before you can run it.

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