To get hardware details (Linux commands)
To know about the hardware our system has lspci lspci -v (more details) lspci -vv (whatever system know about ) 2) USB ---------- lsusb lsusb -v (more details) 3) to know disk connected ---------------------- fdisk fdisk -l hardware check at run time --------------------------- kudzu - runs at boot time, to detect and configure new h/w ddcprobe - if above fails, user must be root(only available on x86 or x86_64) BIOS data gadhering ---------------------- most BIOSes are SMBIOS (system management BIOS) or DMI (desktop management interface) - biosdecode - dmidecode (o/p these are not 100% accurate) - ownership - vpddecode Listing and configuring Kernel modules -------------------------------------------- - modinfo - modprobe (used for loading module manually) HAL(hardware abstraction layer) --------------------------------- HAL daemon run when the system is running to detect new hardware The HAL daemon collects information about the device from the kernel as well as other resource...