Getting all information about hardware at once

[Phil Meyer]

Paul Smith wrote:
> On 8/8/07, bruce <bedouglas at earthlink.net> wrote:
>   
>> you might want to be a bit more specific with what you're trying to find...
>>
>> dmesg will give you a great deal of information... but i don't know if this
>> is helpful!!
>>     
>
> Thanks, Bruce and Craig. Usually, people on the lists ask me what is
> my hardware. Thus, to answer them, I imagined that some command would
> come out with such an information.
>
> Paul
>
>   

Ah, too easy.

For the list, they always want the output of: lspci

For usb devices, install usbutils and run lsusb

The output of those commands tells us the basic model and rev of video, 
wireless, audio, and other components.


Good luck!