Re: hinv (hardware inventory)
Michael K. Johnson (johnsonm@redhat.com)
Fri, 26 Sep 1997 11:38:29 -0400
Malcolm Beattie writes:
>Larry McVoy writes:
>> This is a poor man's copy of hinv. Please try it and send me patches. If it
>> gets good enough maybe the distributions will pick it up.
...
>It also doesn't pick up devices whose drivers are loaded as modules
>(unless there's both no /var/log/dmesg and the real dmesg buffer
>hasn't lost the module load line off the top). This will prevent
>picking up ethernet cards which are typically both popular and
>loaded as modules. Nevertheless, it's a good and useful start.
Take a look at Red Hat's hwdiag program: see http://www.redhat.com/~msf/
This program does all sorts of stuff, including talking to PNP serial
and parallel devices to see what they are.
michaelkjohnson
"Magazines all too frequently lead to books and should be regarded by the
prudent as the heavy petting of literature." -- Fran Lebowitz