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Dutch_Master · LXF regular Joined: Tue Mar 27, 2007 2:49 am Posts: 2353

Update 3: I managed to get Mandriva 2009 running and lo-and-behold, it has the lshw package as well Smile

Ran the latest version (0.003 as per the link) w/o any problems. Good, even 1sf (troll) can use it now Razz

Can somebody confirm that Fedora and Suse has the lshw package in their repo's as well? If that's the case it's safe to assume (IMO!) that the lshw package is generally available for Linux and the script doesn't need tweaking in that respect.

Suggestions and contributions are still welcome! (and properly credited if you put your real name in your message!)

nelz · Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 9:23 am Post subject:

lshw is pretty standard, but if you use something like the code in my first reply you're covered either way.
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AdamW · Joined: Thu Apr 17, 2008 12:45 am Posts: 51

Mandriva also provides lspcidrake , which will give you the Mandriva driver mappings, device description, and (with -v) the USB or PCI ID in a fairly concise and parseable form.
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ollie · Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 2:30 am Post subject:

Hi Dutch_Master,

I've been playing around with your script Very Happy

and realised I may have introduced a slight error with the code snippet I introduced. Sad

The out put of the script is much more useful if it is continually appended to the "mysystem.txt" file. I missed a ">" with my code when setting the date/time the script was run. The full script should be:

Dutch_Master · LXF regular Joined: Tue Mar 27, 2007 2:49 am Posts: 2353

Ah, I see your change. Well, it works w/o the extra > which really is only cosmetic, isn't it? Version inclusion makes sense: it's in. I'll add the extra > though Wink

Version 0.004 is available on the link in my original post on page 1 Smile

@AdamW: good to know, but that wasn't the intention of my script. This one is purely for gathering info on one's hardware as sometimes we get questions that require a bit more knowledge on the questionaire's hardware. I'm sure you, as a Mandriva dev, has experience with similar situations too, so feel free to use the script in Mandriva. Not yet decided on a licence, but it's free now and in the future. Hmm, given it relies on GPL software, there's an obvious choice here I guess? GPL then it is Smile

nelz · Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 8:55 am Post subject:

It's more than cosmetic, if you use > and the file already exists, it will be overwritten, unless you have the noclobber option set in your shell. In which case the script will bomb out with an error.
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AdamW · Joined: Thu Apr 17, 2008 12:45 am Posts: 51

Dutch: yep, I was just adding it for information. Your script is neat, but I'm used to just using the output of lspcidrake -v. It provides everything I need to know for most issues - a vague idea of what the hardware actually is, its PCI / USB ID (always the most important thing, and the reason I hate lspci - neither lspci nor lspci -v lists the PCI ID by default, only lspci -n does...I mean, sheesh), and its default driver mapping. Of course, for a cross-distro effort, something generic like your script is needed.
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SMcE · Joined: Sun Jul 31, 2005 8:23 am Posts: 10

Thanks Dutch_Master&friends for a very useful script. Now, if it just told me what version of Ubuntu I am using, it would be just perfect (at least I think it's Ubuntu, should never have changed that desktop wallpaper...)

A quick&dirty google gives me:

ollie · Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 5:46 am Post subject:

I was starting to play around with getting more distro details as well SMcE and looked at "cat /etc/issue" and "cat /proc/version" instead of "uname -a" and "cat/lsb-release" provides more detail that is useful. So I have changed the script to:

nelz · Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 10:34 am Post subject:

/etc/lsb-release isn't always there. Some distros install the LSB stuff as a separate, optional, package and for other distros it is just not relevant. To avoid the script aborting when the file isn't found, use

Dutch_Master · LXF regular Joined: Tue Mar 27, 2007 2:49 am Posts: 2353

Admittedly "a tad" Rolling Eyes

late, but version 0.006 as per Ollie and Nelz's suggestions can be found on the link in the original post on page 1. Unless some-one has a serious issue with it, it might be worth putting a Sticky on this thread for future (pun intended) visitors. (Mike, that's a hint Wink

) And moving it to the Help section might improve its usage too Razz