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Package: hwinfo (16.0-2)

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

Other Packages Related to hwinfo

  • depends
  • recommends
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  • dep: libc6 (>= 2.2) [mips, mipsel]
    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
    also a virtual package provided by libc6-udeb
    dep: libc6 (>= 2.4) [armel, powerpc]
    dep: libc6 (>= 2.7) [amd64, hppa, i386, s390, sparc]
  • dep: libc6.1 (>= 2.7) [ia64]
    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
    also a virtual package provided by libc6.1-udeb
  • dep: libhd16
    Hardware identification system library

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Download for all available architectures
Architecture Package Size Installed Size Files
amd64 45.6 kB116 kB [list of files]
armel 44.2 kB108 kB [list of files]
hppa 46.1 kB112 kB [list of files]
i386 44.6 kB108 kB [list of files]
ia64 51.7 kB144 kB [list of files]
mips 45.5 kB116 kB [list of files]
mipsel 45.5 kB116 kB [list of files]
powerpc 47.9 kB120 kB [list of files]
s390 46.2 kB112 kB [list of files]
sparc 45.3 kB112 kB [list of files]