topic Re: hwmgr in linux in Operating System - Linux

hwmgr in linux

Kapil Jha — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 07:52:41 GMT

Hi
Please tell me the command similar to hwmgr in UNIX.
Thanks
Kapil

Re: hwmgr in linux

Ivan Ferreira — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 07:58:04 GMT

You can use lshal, hwbrowser, http://ezix.sourceforge.net/software/lshw.html, cfg2html, and www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/rescan-scsi-bus.sh to do most of the things that is done via hwmgr.

Re: hwmgr in linux

Sergejs Svitnevs — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 08:18:21 GMT

1) hwinfo
2) dmesg
3) /proc/*
4) lspci

Regards,
Sergejs

Re: hwmgr in linux

Vipulinux — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 08:43:03 GMT

Hi

Try this:
http://www.nongnu.org/dmidecode/

Cheers

Re: hwmgr in linux

Kapil Jha — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 09:25:44 GMT

hey
I am using redhat 6.2(Zoot)
i could not rum even a single command
lshal
hwinfo
etc
please help
Kapil

Re: hwmgr in linux

Vipulinux — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 09:33:05 GMT

Hi
Download dmidecode from the link i gave above

then do:
tar zxvf dmidecodexxxx.tar.gz
cd dmidecode
make
make install

then
cd /usr/sbin/
./dmidecode

Cheers

Re: hwmgr in linux

Kapil Jha — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 23:02:54 GMT

hey
thanks all of u now i can do whatever i wanted to.
see ya

Re: hwmgr in linux

dirk dierickx — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 02:37:51 GMT

wow, 6.2, that brings back memories...

Re: hwmgr in linux

Kapil Jha — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 01:23:02 GMT

Hi all
Closing this thread as the purpose has been solved
Thanks for your kind support