Best Tool to get Hardware details in Linux

Hardware lister (lshw)

lshw (Hardware Lister) is a small tool to provide detailed information on the hardware configuration of the machine. It can report exact memory configuration, firmware version, mainboard configuration, CPU version and speed, cache configuration, bus speed, etc. on DMI-capable x86 or EFI (IA-64) systems and on some PowerPC machines.


Installation Steps.

[root@ramank ~]# yum -y install lshw*
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Setting up Install Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package lshw.i686 0:B.02.16-1.fc16 will be installed
---> Package lshw-gui.i686 0:B.02.16-1.fc16 will be installed
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

================================================================================
 Package           Arch          Version                 Repository        Size
================================================================================
Installing:
 lshw              i686          B.02.16-1.fc16          updates          283 k
 lshw-gui          i686          B.02.16-1.fc16          updates          376 k

Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Install       2 Packages

Total download size: 659 k
Installed size: 2.4 M
Downloading Packages:
(1/2): lshw-B.02.16-1.fc16.i686.rpm                      | 283 kB     00:04    
(2/2): lshw-gui-B.02.16-1.fc16.i686.rpm                  | 376 kB     00:12    
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total                                            37 kB/s | 659 kB     00:17    
Running Transaction Check
Running Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
  Installing : lshw-B.02.16-1.fc16.i686                                     1/2
  Installing : lshw-gui-B.02.16-1.fc16.i686                                 2/2

Installed:
  lshw.i686 0:B.02.16-1.fc16           lshw-gui.i686 0:B.02.16-1.fc16         

Complete!



Usages:-

For Graphic use command like

[root@ramank tmp]#  lshw-gui

Screen Shot attached for ref.

Command Based.

just enter  command like #lshw

or short command like below

[root@ramank ~]#  lshw -short
H/W path         Device       Class          Description
========================================================
                              system         Latitude E6420 ()
/0                            bus            0K0DNP
/0/0                          memory         64KiB BIOS
/0/4                          processor      Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2520M CPU @ 2.
/0/4/5                        memory         32KiB L1 cache
/0/4/6                        memory         256KiB L2 cache
/0/4/7                        memory         3MiB L3 cache
/0/4/0.1                      processor      Logical CPU
/0/4/0.2                      processor      Logical CPU
/0/4/0.3                      processor      Logical CPU
/0/4/0.4                      processor      Logical CPU
/0/4/0.5                      processor      Logical CPU
/0/4/0.6                      processor      Logical CPU
/0/4/0.7                      processor      Logical CPU
/0/4/0.8                      processor      Logical CPU
/0/4/0.9                      processor      Logical CPU
/0/4/0.a                      processor      Logical CPU
/0/4/0.b                      processor      Logical CPU
/0/4/0.c                      processor      Logical CPU
/0/4/0.d                      processor      Logical CPU
/0/4/0.e                      processor      Logical CPU
/0/4/0.f                      processor      Logical CPU
/0/4/0.10                     processor      Logical CPU
/0/41                         memory         4GiB System Memory
/0/41/0                       memory         4GiB SODIMM DDR3 Synchronous 1333 M
/0/41/1                       memory         DIMM [empty]
/0/1                          processor     
/0/1/2.1                      processor      Logical CPU
/0/1/2.2                      processor      Logical CPU
/0/1/2.3                      processor      Logical CPU
/0/1/2.4                      processor      Logical CPU
/0/1/2.5                      processor      Logical CPU
/0/1/2.6                      processor      Logical CPU
/0/1/2.7                      processor      Logical CPU
/0/1/2.8                      processor      Logical CPU
/0/1/2.9                      processor      Logical CPU
/0/1/2.a                      processor      Logical CPU
/0/1/2.b                      processor      Logical CPU
/0/1/2.c                      processor      Logical CPU
/0/1/2.d                      processor      Logical CPU
/0/1/2.e                      processor      Logical CPU
/0/1/2.f                      processor      Logical CPU
/0/1/2.10                     processor      Logical CPU
/0/100                        bridge         2nd Generation Core Processor Famil
/0/100/2                      display        2nd Generation Core Processor Famil
/0/100/16                     communication  6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family
/0/100/19        em1          network        82579LM Gigabit Network Connection
/0/100/1a                     bus            6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family
/0/100/1b                     multimedia     6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family
/0/100/1c                     bridge         6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family
/0/100/1c.1                   bridge         6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family
/0/100/1c.1/0    wlan0        network        Centrino Advanced-N 6205
/0/100/1c.2                   bridge         6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family
/0/100/1c.3                   bridge         6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family
/0/100/1c.5                   bridge         6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family
/0/100/1c.5/0                 generic        O2 Micro, Inc.
/0/100/1c.5/0.1               storage        O2 Micro, Inc.
/0/100/1d                     bus            6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family
/0/100/1f                     bridge         QM67 Express Chipset Family LPC Con
/0/100/1f.2                   storage        Mobile 82801 SATA RAID Controller
/0/100/1f.3                   bus            6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family
/0/2             scsi0        storage       
/0/2/0.0.0       /dev/sda     disk           320GB TOSHIBA MK3261GS
/0/2/0.0.0/1     /dev/sda1    volume         1023KiB BIOS Boot partition
/0/2/0.0.0/2     /dev/sda2    volume         500MiB EXT4 volume
/0/2/0.0.0/3     /dev/sda3    volume         50GiB EXT4 volume
/0/2/0.0.0/4     /dev/sda4    volume         5247MiB Linux swap volume
/0/2/0.0.0/5     /dev/sda5    volume         100GiB EXT4 volume
/0/2/0.0.0/6     /dev/sda6    volume         142GiB EXT4 volume
/0/3             scsi1        storage       
/0/3/0.0.0       /dev/cdrom3  disk           DVD+-RW TS-U633J
/1                            power          DELL TVMVN19



See man page for more options.


Enjoy...