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 .
OTHER INFO
The webpage for lshw is at
$Rev: 2179 $ 30 May 2010 LSHW(1)