Hardware Profile

[Coruba67]

Hi guys,

Please forgive me if this seems like an extraordinarily stoopid question, though I was wondering how do you discover what hardware your running from the console... What I am trying to get to is from the console - I don't have any access to the box physically or the desktop, and I am trying to work out what processor is running in that box...

How do I look this kind of information up?

Thanks heaps in advance.

Cheers

[jxdjunk]

Try to look into
/var/log/dmesg

[jcliburn]

cat /proc/cpuinfo

[krige]

I need to know my hardware profile: /var/log/dmesg contains far more information than those I need. Is there any way to get only the basic (human-relevant) profile information? Something like:

- motherboard brand and model;
- cpu brand, model and speed;
- graphic card brand and model;
- etc...

[ryptyde]

If you are running FC6 or F7T2 you can open a terminal and as root run:

# yum install smolt

then after it is installed from the same terminal run:

# smoltSendProfile

You will then get a hardware profile in the terminal and also a link to your unique uid at the Fedora site that you can view.

The info about "smolt" was recently posted in the News Forum here by "foolish". Check it out and participate: SMOLT

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[krige]

Originally Posted by ryptyde

If you are running FC6 or F7T2 you can open a terminal and as root run:

# yum install smolt

Thanks for the suggestion. I have done that a few days ago on my FC6 and saved the link it gave me in case I might need it, but when I tried to open it today I got the error message "500 Internal error. The server encountered an unexpected condition which prevented it from fulfilling the request.".

I did smoltSendProfile again and had the information I needed, actually something more than the essential information I was hoping for. The problem is that I couldn't install smolt on FC4, so I can't use it to know the hardware information. I scrolled the applications listed in the Package Manager / Base System / System Tools and found nothing related to hardware information.

[Firewing1]

You can use hal ("lshal" or "hal-device") to see lots of info about your hardware, and /sbin/lspci for basic info.
Firewing1

[krige]

Thanks /sbin/lspci is what I needed.

[miguel220369]

if you use kde try the kinfocentre command. I think you will find it very useful