Ubuntu 10.10 : how to check hardware info w/ lswh

lswh command will output hardware information such as drivers , configuration info.

For example , you can check network info , just type “lshw -C network”

Seen from an output , I can find out that iwlagn driver is used for my wireless network card.

# lshw -C network  *-network                      description: Wireless interface       product: Centrino Advanced-N + WiMAX 6250       vendor: Intel Corporation       physical id: 0       bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0       logical name: wlan0       version: 5e       serial: 00:23:15:47:b1:94       width: 64 bits       clock: 33MHz       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlagn driverversion=2.6.35-28-generic firmware=9.201.4.1 build 24255 ip=192.168.11.19 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11abg       resources: irq:45 memory:f8000000-f8001fff  *-network       description: Ethernet interface       product: RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.       physical id: 0       bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0       logical name: eth0       version: 03       serial: 00:22:20:0b:5e:3b       size: 10MB/s       capacity: 1GB/s       width: 64 bits       clock: 33MHz       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=half latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=MII speed=10MB/s       resources: irq:43 ioport:3000(size=256) memory:f4000000-f4000fff memory:f2000000-f2003fff memory:f2010000-f201ffff  *-network       description: Ethernet interface       physical id: 4       bus info: usb@1:5       logical name: wmx0       serial: 00:1d:e1:37:35:2d       capabilities: ethernet physical       configuration: driver=i2400m firmware=i6050-fw-usb-1.5.sbcf link=no

# lsmod | grep wla iwlagn                178948  0 iwlcore               127415  1 iwlagn mac80211              231959  2 iwlagn,iwlcore cfg80211              144694  3 iwlagn,iwlcore,mac80211

There’s a GUI version of lshw.
Install GUI version of lshw.

# apt-get install lshw-gtk

# lshw -X

GUI will pop up like this.
You can check hardware info through a GUI.