Re: Retrieve hardware and modules info..

2010-04-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,08.Apr.10, 14:11:02, Stephen Powell wrote: > > Andrei, I already told the OP about modinfo in an earlier post; but If you look at the headers you can see that in theory I beat you by ~30 minutes, but in practice, the mail was stuck in my postfix queue until today, because wicd does not r

Re: Retrieve hardware and modules info..

2010-04-08 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 4 Apr 2010 18:15:33 -0400 (EDT), Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon,05.Apr.10, 07:36:03, Lubos Rendek wrote: >> thanks guys for this.. Now what is the best way to link modules to a >> specific hardware. for example my lsmod shows that I use 'ecb' module. >> For someone like me this name does no

Re: Retrieve hardware and modules info..

2010-04-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,05.Apr.10, 07:36:03, Lubos Rendek wrote: > thanks guys for this.. Now what is the best way to link modules to a > specific hardware. for example my lsmod shows that I use 'ecb' module. > For someone like me this name does not say much. Is there a way to > find which module belongs to which p

Re: Retrieve hardware and modules info..

2010-04-07 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 07:45:25 -0400 (EDT), Lubos Rendek wrote: > On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 8:53 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: >> On Sun, 4 Apr 2010 17:36:03 -0400 (EDT), Lubos Rendek wrote: >>> >>> thanks guys for this.. Now what is the best way to link modules to a >>> specific hardware. for example my lsm

Re: Retrieve hardware and modules info..

2010-04-07 Thread Lubos Rendek
thanks Stephen this is exactly what I was looking for. :-) On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 8:53 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Sun, 4 Apr 2010 17:36:03 -0400 (EDT), Lubos Rendek wrote: >> >> thanks guys for this.. Now what is the best way to link modules to a >> specific hardware. for example my lsmod sho

Re: NOW: Stay away from lshw! WAS: Retrieve hardware and modules info..

2010-04-05 Thread Javier Barroso
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 6:38 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-04-05 00:19 +0200, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> With some Google help I figured out how to fix the missing >> /var/lib/dpkg/available problem and got lshw removed.  Hopefully there's no >> remaining hidden damage on my server. > > The less

Re: NOW: Stay away from lshw! WAS: Retrieve hardware and modules info..

2010-04-04 Thread Joey Hess
Sven Joachim wrote: > You are shooting the messenger. lshw is a userspace program, not a > device driver. If running it locks up your system, this is almost > surely a bug in the kernel. Userspace programs run as root, such as lshw, have access to the entire machine memory, registers, and data b

Re: NOW: Stay away from lshw! WAS: Retrieve hardware and modules info..

2010-04-04 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-04-05 00:19 +0200, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > With some Google help I figured out how to fix the missing > /var/lib/dpkg/available problem and got lshw removed. Hopefully there's no > remaining hidden damage on my server. The lesson from this problem is that it is a bad idea to put /var on e

Re: NOW: Stay away from lshw! WAS: Retrieve hardware and modules info..

2010-04-04 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 04:43, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Ron Johnson put forth on 4/4/2010 9:08 PM: > Your analogy, regardless of how cute, sarcastic, and applicable you believe > it to be doesn't fit.  If I run lshw, it will lock the system every time, > not only after adding salt to the machine for

Re: NOW: Stay away from lshw! WAS: Retrieve hardware and modules info..

2010-04-04 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Ron Johnson put forth on 4/4/2010 9:08 PM: > On 2010-04-04 17:19, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> With some Google help I figured out how to fix the missing >> /var/lib/dpkg/available problem and got lshw removed. Hopefully >> there's no >> remaining hidden damage on my server. I don't think I'll ever be

Re: NOW: Stay away from lshw! WAS: Retrieve hardware and modules info..

2010-04-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-04 17:19, Stan Hoeppner wrote: With some Google help I figured out how to fix the missing /var/lib/dpkg/available problem and got lshw removed. Hopefully there's no remaining hidden damage on my server. I don't think I'll ever be messing with lshw again. It could be that it expects

Re: Retrieve hardware and modules info..

2010-04-04 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-04-04 17:03:30, Celejar wrote: On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 15:57:09 -0500 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Celejar put forth on 4/4/2010 11:53 AM: > > > $ apt-cache show lshw > > > > ... > > > > Description: information about hardware configuration > > A small tool to provide detailed information on the h

Re: Retrieve hardware and modules info..

2010-04-04 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 4 Apr 2010 17:36:03 -0400 (EDT), Lubos Rendek wrote: > > thanks guys for this.. Now what is the best way to link modules to a > specific hardware. for example my lsmod shows that I use 'ecb' module. > For someone like me this name does not say much. Is there a way to > find which module be

NOW: Stay away from lshw! WAS: Retrieve hardware and modules info..

2010-04-04 Thread Stan Hoeppner
With some Google help I figured out how to fix the missing /var/lib/dpkg/available problem and got lshw removed. Hopefully there's no remaining hidden damage on my server. I don't think I'll ever be messing with lshw again. It could be that it expects something my old server doesn't have, and lo

Re: Retrieve hardware and modules info..

2010-04-04 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Celejar put forth on 4/4/2010 4:03 PM: > Not a clue - I've just been in the habit of using lshw (although I > don't use it all that often). I'll have to look into dmidecode. I thought I'd give lshw a try. Based on my brief experience, I'd recommend others not do so. This is interesting, and re

Re: Retrieve hardware and modules info..

2010-04-04 Thread Lubos Rendek
thanks guys for this.. Now what is the best way to link modules to a specific hardware. for example my lsmod shows that I use 'ecb' module. For someone like me this name does not say much. Is there a way to find which module belongs to which piece of hardware? >> Other than html or xml output, wha

Re: Retrieve hardware and modules info..

2010-04-04 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 15:57:09 -0500 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Celejar put forth on 4/4/2010 11:53 AM: > > > $ apt-cache show lshw > > > > ... > > > > Description: information about hardware configuration > > A small tool to provide detailed information on the hardware > > configuration of the ma

Re: Retrieve hardware and modules info..

2010-04-04 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Celejar put forth on 4/4/2010 11:53 AM: > $ apt-cache show lshw > > ... > > Description: information about hardware configuration > A small tool to provide detailed information on the hardware > configuration of the machine. It can report exact memory > configuration, firmware version, mainbo

Re: Retrieve hardware and modules info..

2010-04-04 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 4 Apr 2010 10:37:34 +1000 Lubos Rendek wrote: > HI guys, > > Suppose that I have a some laptop in my hands and I would like to find > out what hardware this laptop has and what is supported by Debian out > of the box by which modules. Is there any tool which will be able to > retrieve a

Re: Retrieve hardware and modules info..

2010-04-03 Thread Freeman
On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 10:37:34AM +1000, Lubos Rendek wrote: > HI guys, > > Suppose that I have a some laptop in my hands and I would like to find > out what hardware this laptop has and what is supported by Debian out > of the box by which modules. Is there any tool which will be able to > retr

Re: Retrieve hardware and modules info..

2010-04-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-03 19:37, Lubos Rendek wrote: HI guys, Suppose that I have a some laptop in my hands and I would like to find out what hardware this laptop has and what is supported by Debian out of the box by which modules. Is there any tool which will be able to retrieve all important hardware inf

Retrieve hardware and modules info..

2010-04-03 Thread Lubos Rendek
HI guys, Suppose that I have a some laptop in my hands and I would like to find out what hardware this laptop has and what is supported by Debian out of the box by which modules. Is there any tool which will be able to retrieve all important hardware information. I know that this can be achieved