Re: [SLUG] unusual output from lshw

From: Paul M Foster (paulf@quillandmouse.com)
Date: Sat Dec 03 2005 - 13:04:46 EST


On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 10:30:02AM -0600, michael hast wrote:

> Sick Twist wrote:
>
> >>Hey, Jonathan!
> >>
> >>How do you run this command? I would like to play with this here at
> >>home. Thanks.
> >>
> >>Michael
> >
> >
> >At a terminal just run this as root:
> >
> >lshw
> >
> >I like to pipe it into less to make it a little easier to read through:
> >
> >lshw | less
> >
> >It was installed by default in Ubuntu. I'm not sure about other systems.
> >
> >-Jonathon
> >
> >
> Huh. Yeah. That's what I did...
>
> It doesn't seem to work on Debian or Knoppix. Interesting.

It's not installed by default under Debian, but is available. Prior to
running the command, do

which lshw

If you get nothing back, it's not installed. If not, then run

apt-get install lshw

and allow it to install the couple of packages it entails. _Then_ run
the lshw command on your hardware.

Paul

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