– You will always come across in a situation whee you will need to know the underlying hardware like CPU, memory, NICs and other hardware.
– To know about the CPU
# cat /proc/cpuinfo
# lscpu
– To know about the memory
# cat /proc/meminfo
– To know about tyhe NICs
# lspci | grep Ether
– To know about the hardware platform
# dmidecode -t 1
– To know about the USB drives/ports
# lsusb
– To know about the BIOS
# dmidecode -t 0
– To know about the motherboard
# dmidecode -t 2
– To know about tyhe detected hardware
# dmesg
– To get the hard disk parameters
# hdparm
– To list all the SCSi devices attached
# lsscsi
– To list all the pcmcia devices
# lspcmcia
– To list HAL devices
# lshal
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