Get information about installed hardware with these commands
This command will print the make and model of your motherboard.
jason@eyjafjallajkull:~$ sudo dmidecode -t baseboard [sudo] password for jason: # dmidecode 2.12 SMBIOS 2.4 present. Handle 0x0002, DMI type 2, 8 bytes Base Board Information Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. Product Name: H55-USB3 Version: x.x Serial Number: |
To get information about your network hardware use lshw. The sudo lshw -class network command will give you the required information.
ubuntu ~ $ sudo lshw -class network *-network description: Ethernet interface physical id: 1 logical name: eth0 serial: 06:d6:3a:a8:82:13 capabilities: ethernet physical configuration: broadcast=yes driver=vif ip=172.31.20.16 link=yes multicast=yes |
This one-liner will return just the interface MAC address.
ubuntu ~ $ sudo lshw -class network | grep serial serial: 06:d6:3a:a8:82:13 |
The lspci command will return a simple listing of computer hardware. This is a quick way to see what you have in a system.
ubuntu ~ $ lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440FX - 82441FX PMC [Natoma] (rev 02) 00:01.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371SB PIIX3 ISA [Natoma/Triton II] 00:01.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371SB PIIX3 IDE [Natoma/Triton II] 00:01.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 01) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Cirrus Logic GD 5446 00:03.0 Unassigned class [ff80]: XenSource, Inc. Xen Platform Device (rev 01) |
And finally, to get information about your installed CPU, use the lscpu command.
ubuntu ~ $ lscpu Architecture: x86_64 CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit Byte Order: Little Endian CPU(s): 1 On-line CPU(s) list: 0 Thread(s) per core: 1 Core(s) per socket: 1 Socket(s): 1 NUMA node(s): 1 Vendor ID: GenuineIntel CPU family: 6 Model: 62 Stepping: 4 CPU MHz: 2500.110 BogoMIPS: 5000.22 Hypervisor vendor: Xen Virtualization type: full L1d cache: 32K L1i cache: 32K L2 cache: 256K L3 cache: 25600K NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0 |