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LSHW(1)								       LSHW(1)

NAME
       lshw - list hardware

SYNOPSIS
       lshw [ -version ]

       lshw [ -help ]

       lshw [ -X ]

       lshw  [	[ -html ]  [ -short ]  [ -xml ]	 [ -json ]  [ -businfo ]  ]  [
       -dump filename ]	 [ -class class... ]  [ -disable test... ]  [  -enable
       test... ]  [ -sanitize ]	 [ -numeric ]  [ -quiet ]

DESCRIPTION
       lshw  is	 a  small tool to extract 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 IA-64 systems  and
       on some PowerPC machines (PowerMac G4 is known to work).

       It  currently  supports	DMI  (x86 and IA-64 only), OpenFirmware device
       tree (PowerPC only), PCI/AGP, CPUID (x86), IDE/ATA/ATAPI, PCMCIA	 (only
       tested on x86), SCSI and USB.

       -version
	      Displays the version of lshw and exits.

       -help  Displays the available command line options and quits.

       -X     Launch the X11 GUI (if available).

       -html  Outputs the device tree as an HTML page.

       -xml   Outputs the device tree as an XML tree.

       -json  Outputs  the  device  tree  as  a JSON object (JavaScript Object
	      Notation).

       -short Outputs the device tree showing hardware paths, very  much  like
	      the output of HP-UX's ioscan.

       -businfo
	      Outputs the device list showing bus information, detailing SCSI,
	      USB, IDE and PCI addresses.

       -dump filename
	      Dump collected information into a file (SQLite database).

       -class class
	      Only show the given class of hardware. class can be found	 using
	      lshw -short or lshw -businfo.

       -C class
	      Alias for -class class.

       -enable test

       -disable test
	      Enables  or  disables  a	test.  test can be dmi (for DMI/SMBIOS
	      extensions), device-tree (for  OpenFirmware  device  tree),  spd
	      (for  memory  Serial  Presence  Detect), memory (for memory-size
	      guessing heuristics), cpuinfo (for  kernel-reported  CPU	detec‐
	      tion),  cpuid  (for  CPU	detection),  pci (for PCI/AGP access),
	      isapnp (for ISA PnP extensions), pcmcia (for PCMCIA/PCCARD), ide
	      (for  IDE/ATAPI),	 usb (for USB devices),scsi (for SCSI) or net‐
	      work (for network interfaces detection).

       -quiet Don't display status.

       -sanitize
	      Remove  potentially  sensitive  information  from	  output   (IP
	      addresses, serial numbers, etc.).

       -numeric
	      Also display numeric IDs (for PCI and USB devices).

BUGS
       lshw currently does not detect Firewire(IEEE1394) devices.

       Not  all architectures supported by GNU/Linux are fully supported (e.g.
       CPU detection).

       "Virtual" SCSI interfaces used for SCSI	emulation  over	 IDE  are  not
       reported correctly yet.

NOTES
       lshw  must be run as super user or it will only report partial informa‐
       tion.

FILES
       /usr/local/share/pci.ids

       /usr/share/pci.ids

       /etc/pci.ids

       /usr/share/hwdata/pci.ids
	      A list of all known PCI ID's (vendors, devices, classes and sub‐
	      classes).

       /proc/bus/pci/*
	      Used  to	access	the  configuration of installed PCI busses and
	      devices.

       /proc/ide/*
	      Used to access the configuration of  installed  IDE  busses  and
	      devices.

       /proc/scsi/*, /dev/sg*
	      Used to access the configuration of installed SCSI devices.

       /dev/cpu/*/cpuid
	      Used on x86 platforms to access CPU-specific configuration.

       /proc/device-tree/*
	      Used on PowerPC platforms to access OpenFirmware configuration.

       /proc/bus/usb/*
	      Used  to	access	the  configuration of installed USB busses and
	      devices.

       /sys/* Used on 2.6  kernels  to	access	hardware/driver	 configuration
	      information.

EXAMPLES
       lshw -short
	      Lists hardware in a compact format.

       lshw -class disk -class storage
	      Lists all disks and storage controllers in the system.

       lshw -html -class network
	      Lists all network interfaces in HTML.

       lshw -disable dmi
	      Don't use DMI to detect hardware.

SEE ALSO
       /proc/*, linuxinfo(1), lspci(8), lsusb(8)

COPYING
       lshw  is distributed under the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE (GPL) version
       2.

AUTHOR
       lshw is maintained by Lyonel Vincent <lyonel@ezix.org>.

OTHER INFO
       The webpage for lshw is at
	<URL:http://lshw.org/>

$Rev: 2179 $			  30 May 2010			       LSHW(1)
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