> I'm after a utility that will catalogue the hardware on a computer (Video card, PCI > cards, sound, memory, cpu info, IRQs etc) > There is a shareware DOS utility called hwinfo. Is there a Linux equivalent?
Sure is, and it's called hwinfo :) Some of its output obviously comes from /proc/...* or lspci, but for each piece of hardware it also produces output like 40: IDE 02.0: 10600 Disk [Created at manual.241] Unique ID: hY5p.gbat9awCRmF Hardware Class: disk Model: "Maxtor 51536H2" Device: "Maxtor 51536H2" Revision: "JAC61HU0" Serial ID: "F20NHMLC" Device File: /dev/hdc Geometry (Physical): CHS 29777/16/63 Geometry (Logical): CHS 1868/255/63 Size: 30015216 sectors a 512 bytes Cache: 2048 kb Config Status: cfg=yes, avail=no, need=no 45: SCSI 03.0: 10c00 Scanner [Created at manual.241] Unique ID: +XM_.wom1AmpMP78 Hardware Class: scanner Model: "Nikon LS-2000" Vendor: "Nikon" Device: "LS-2000" Revision: "1.31" Device File: /dev/sg1 Config Status: cfg=yes, avail=no, need=no It's based on a library by the looks of it: libhd version 6.19u (ia32) The rpm description says "A simple program that lists results from the hardware detection library." GPL, don't know where it originally comes from but you can get a copy here: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/9.0/suse/i586/hwinfo-7.30-32.i586.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/9.0/suse/i586/hwinfo-devel-7.30-32.i586.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/9.0/suse/src/hwinfo-7.30-32.src.rpm It's also included on SuSE's live-eval CD, and on any of their first distribution media. I.e. after booting a CD you can run it on any computer even if that doesn't have any Linux on it. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
