Common commands to obtain information on hardware.

• Refer to the /proc directory. This directory contains a few files that can give you information about your hardware such as memory (meminfo), processor (cpuinfo), partitions (partition) and many more.
• Use “lspci” command. This is a command to list all pci devices connected to your machine.
• Use “lshw” command. This command will list out all hardware installed on your system.
• Use “kudzu -p” command. This is redhat/centos hardware probing and installing tool. Use “kudzu -p” to display all the hardware connected to the system.
• Use “dmidecode” command. This is a tool for dumping bios information into human readable form.
• Run “lsusb” to list out all usb devices.