Comments on: FAQ: How to retreive hardware manufacturer name, serial numbers, etc. in Linux command line

By: Roger Pedlow

Roger Pedlow — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:32:37 +0000

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By: Deviceback

Deviceback — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:21:13 +0000

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By: Bobby0724

Bobby0724 — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:33:14 +0000

#!/bin/sh
echo “Getting HW information”
rm info.txt
echo “————System Information————————–” >> info.txt
wget http://mirror.sourceshare.org/savannah/dmidecode/dmidecode-2.10.tar.gz
tar -zxvf dmidecode-2.10.tar.gz
cd dmidecode-2.10
make
./dmidecode -t 1 >> ../info.txt
cd ..
echo “Hostname: $HOSTNAME” >> info.txt
echo “Data Collected :” >> info.txt
date >> info.txt
echo “” >> info.txt
echo “————Operating System Information—————-” >> info.txt
cat /proc/version >> info.txt
echo “” >> info.txt
echo “————CPU Information—————————–” >> info.txt
cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep processor >> info.txt
cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep name >> info.txt
cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep MHz >> info.txt
echo “” >> info.txt
echo “————Memory Information————————–” >> info.txt
cat /proc/meminfo | grep MemTotal >> info.txt
cat /proc/meminfo | grep MemFree >> info.txt
echo “” >> info.txt
echo “————Network Information————————-” >> info.txt
lspci | grep Ethernet >> info.txt
ifconfig | grep HWaddr >> info.txt
ifconfig | grep Bcast >> info.txt
echo “” >> info.txt
echo “————Disk Information—————————-” >> info.txt
df -h >> info.txt
rm dmidecode-2.10.tar.gz
rm -rf dmidecode-2.10

By: mysurface

mysurface — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:52:34 +0000

lshw does provide quite informative hardware info too, and can generate html format.

http://linux.byexamples.com/archives/340/how-to-generate-system-hardware-profile-for-your-laptop/
But recently lshw seems to acting up

By: artiomix

artiomix — Mon, 12 May 2008 07:49:51 +0000

Thank you, confiq, that’s what I wanna say

By: confiq

confiq — Sun, 11 May 2008 21:27:00 +0000

you should use “sudo” instead of “gksudo”.
gksudo is to ask you in GUI for password, but if you’re in terminal without X you can’t use that command!

By: shirteesdotnet

shirteesdotnet — Sat, 10 May 2008 14:56:01 +0000

Sounds interesting. Ive only been running Ubuntu for about 8 months now… can move around pretty good, but at first couldnt figure out how to run this. I installed it fine in the terminal, and then typed “dmidecode” in the terminal to run it but get this error:

dmidecode 2.9
/dev/mem: Permission Denied

I then did “gksudo dmidecode” and it worked fine.