hwmgr in linux

[Kapil Jha]

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

[Ivan Ferreira]

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.

[Sergejs Svitnevs]

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


Regards,
Sergejs

[Vipulinux]

Hi

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

Cheers

[Kapil Jha]

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

[Vipulinux]

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

[Kapil Jha]

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

[dirk dierickx]

wow, 6.2, that brings back memories...

[Kapil Jha]

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