command for hardware inventory in linux

[RC Agent]

Is there a linux command for checking what hardware the system has?
In IRIX, there's: hinv
In Solaris, there's: prtdiag
In HP-UX, there's: ioscan
Not sure what is might be in AIX.
Is there something similar for linux??

Just wondering.....

[dZeus]

lspci

[Ribbit]

lspci will tell you what's on your PCI and AGP (and Cardbus) buses, but there's nothing I know of which will tell you everything. Unlike the other OSes you mention, Linux runs on a very wide range of hardware, most of which conforms to some very loose "standards".

There are files in /proc which have useful information - try /proc/{cpuinfo, dma, interrupts, iomem, ioports, pci}. There's more info in /proc/bus/* and (on Linux 2.6) /sys, if you know how to interpret it.

Note that all of that will generally only tell you about hardware which already has a driver loaded for it.

[Malte]

Re: command for hardware inventory in linux

Originally posted by RC Agent
Is there a linux command for checking what hardware the system has?

Just wondering.....

As mentioned by dZeus and Rabbit: lspci (located often at /sbin/lspci, a normal user usually doesn´t have /sbin in his path).

But most distributions today additionally have graphical tools or tools that wait in the background and tell you if you have installed new hardware ("suseplugger" of SuSE Linux e.g.) and they may be more convinient than lspci.