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SSTwinrova
April 1st, 2006, 03:43 AM
I'm aware of lspci for showing information about the PCi cards in a machine, but is there a single command (or set of commands) that allows essentially the equivalent of Device Manager in Windows to be available to a program? I've found a script for Windows (and in Python, no less) that lets me do this, so the next step of the equation is the Linux/Ubuntu side. For those curious, this (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=146757) is my idea and reasoning behind finding out how to do this. Thanks.

SSTwinrova
April 3rd, 2006, 04:55 AM
Just an update as I may have answered my own question: I think querying HAL will probably be the easiest way to accomplish what I want