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jordanwb l33t
Joined: 10 Jul 2008 Posts: 642 Location: Ottawa, Canada
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Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 7:50 pm Post subject: [Solved]How to get a specific list of my computer's hardware |
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The last time I tried Gentoo on well any PC, it didn't turn out well. But this time I have an excuse to try Gentoo again. Drivers for my Logitech mouse bricked Vista. More or less I want to find out what SATA controller I have on my HP xw4100 workstation. According to a "tech" guy at HP it's made by Promise. Well that's not very specific. Any way to find out what specific SATA controller I use?
Whoa it's pouring outside.
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Exil Apprentice
Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 251 Location: Nibylandia
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Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 7:57 pm Post subject: |
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lspci -vvv or maybe hwinfo |
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Neo2 Apprentice
Joined: 25 Sep 2006 Posts: 224 Location: Italy
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Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 8:04 pm Post subject: |
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Exil wrote: | lspci -vvv or maybe hwinfo |
-vvv is very verbose output (more than a human could ever use or understand, IMHO). If you're only interested in names/producers, I suggest to start with a simple "lspci". hwinfo is also good, but it may report too much information as well. _________________ Neo2
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jordanwb l33t
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Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 8:07 pm Post subject: |
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Would adding a fourth v make it uber verbose? lspci -vvv gave me a lot of info, some of which is the SATA controller. For instance I didn't know Broadcom made my net controller. Thanks. |
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Neo2 Apprentice
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Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 8:25 pm Post subject: |
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Well, you can actually test it piping the output to wc: "lspci -vvv | wc -l" and then comparing to others. I've just verified and seems like 3 or 4 "v"s do not add nothing to the report:
Code: | fabio@gentoo-node2 ~ $ sudo lspci | wc -l
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fabio@gentoo-node2 ~ $ sudo lspci -v | wc -l
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fabio@gentoo-node2 ~ $ sudo lspci -vv | wc -l
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fabio@gentoo-node2 ~ $ sudo lspci -vvv | wc -l
246
fabio@gentoo-node2 ~ $ sudo lspci -vvvv | wc -l
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think4urs11 Bodhisattva
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Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 8:39 pm Post subject: |
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lshw is annother option _________________ Nothing is secure / Security is always a trade-off with usability / Do not assume anything / Trust no-one, nothing / Paranoia is your friend / Think for yourself |
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energyman76b Advocate
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Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 4:18 pm Post subject: |
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dmidecode may also have some information. lsusb, lsscsi too. _________________ Study finds stunning lack of racial, gender, and economic diversity among middle-class white males
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jordanwb l33t
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Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 10:30 pm Post subject: |
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lspci -vvv gave me what I needed. Thanks. With lspci I found out that the SATA controller was made by Intel, not Promise, so much for tech guys. |
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i92guboj Bodhisattva
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Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 11:53 am Post subject: |
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Moved from Gentoo Chat to Kernel & Hardware. |
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