hwinfo

hwinfo [--component] [--short] [--log file]

hwinfo probes for hardware present in the system and provides detailed information about detected devices. It can report on individual components or all hardware at once.

--short

Show brief summary instead of full details

Probe for all hardware

Write output to specified file

Set debug level (0-255)

Dump hardware database

--cpu: Processor information--memory: RAM and memory--disk: Hard drives and SSDs--partition: Disk partitions--network: Network adapters--gfxcard: Graphics cards--sound: Audio devices--usb: USB devices--pci: PCI devices--keyboard: Keyboards--mouse: Pointing devices--monitor: Display monitors--framebuffer: Framebuffer devices--cdrom: CD/DVD drives--bios: BIOS information--fingerprint: Fingerprint readers--bluetooth: Bluetooth devices

Some hardware detection requires root privileges. Full probing (--all) can take significant time. The tool is primarily developed for openSUSE but works on other distributions.

hwinfo was developed by SUSE for hardware detection in Linux. It provides one of the most comprehensive hardware probing utilities available.

lshw(1), lspci(8), lsusb(8), dmidecode(8)

Source code