Package: hwinfo (13.11-3)

Hardware identification system

hwinfo is the hardware detection tool used in SuSE Linux.

In Debian-Edu (Skolelinux) hwinfo has shown better results than discover when detecting mouse, keyboard and monitor.

hwinfo collects information about the hardware installed on a system. Among others, libhd contains information about cdrom, zip, floppy, disks and partitions, network card, graphics card, monitor, camera, mouse, sound, pppoe, isdn, modem, printer, scanner, bios, cpu, usb, memory and smp.

This package does not include the binaries hwscan, hwscand and hwscanqueue. If you think one or more of these should be included in the package, please contact the maintainer at hwinfo@packages.debian.org.

Tags: System Administration: Hardware Support, Hardware Enablement: Hardware Detection, Implemented in: C, User Interface: Command Line, Role: Program, Scope: Utility, Purpose: Scanning