List of hardware and drivers

**mundo** · September 29th, 2008

Hi,

How do I view the hardware that I have on my machine and the drivers that are being used?

**jualin** · September 29th, 2008

Go to the terminal and type

lshw

**mundo** · September 30th, 2008

Thanks, this shows the hardware but how can I see the drivers?

**ryanhaigh** · October 1st, 2008

First a little note on lshw, I have always found having it output html to a file and openning in the browser a lot easier to read:

Code:

lshw -html > system.html && xdg-open ./system.html

The following command will list all currently utilised modules:

Code:

lsmod

**jualin** · October 1st, 2008

Originally Posted by mundo

Thanks, this shows the hardware but how can I see the drivers?

Wherever the hardware is mentioned the driver should also be mentioned somewhere on the file.
For instance

*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter
vendor: Atheros Communications Inc.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0
logical name: wmaster0
version: 01
serial: 00:1e:4c:3f:5d:d4
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list logical ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath5k_pci ip=128.186.243.81 latency=0 module=ath5k multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg

In my case the driver ath5k_pci is being used for my wireless adapter.

**ryanhaigh** · October 1st, 2008

Originally Posted by jualin

Wherever the hardware is mentioned the driver should also be mentioned somewhere on the file.
For instance
In my case the driver ath5k_pci is being used for my wireless adapter.

Thanks for that info, I hadn't really gone through the output of lshw properly, this will be very useful as I will soon be compiling a custom kernel for a very low-powered system.

**MehdizLinux** · November 19th, 2009

I cannot see the version of driver. Is there any other way? And how can I quickly go to the post I'm waiting for a replay in that?

Code:

 *-display
                description: VGA compatible controller
                product: G71 [Quadro FX 1500]
                vendor: nVidia Corporation
                physical id: 0
                bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
                version: a1
                width: 64 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: bus_master cap_list rom
                configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
                resources: irq:16 memory:e1000000-e1ffffff memory:d0000000-dfffffff(prefetchable) memory:e2000000-e2ffffff ioport:1000(size=128) memory:e0000000-e001ffff(prefetchable)