hardware info in ubuntu

[Peter Garrett]

On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 11:11:01 +1100
Paul Dwerryhouse <paul at dwerryhouse.com.au> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 08:20:10AM +0000, MICHAEL WEAVER wrote:
> > Is there a way of finding out hardware of a PC in Ubuntu?
> 
> lspci - lists PCI devices
> lsusb - lists USB devices
> cat /proc/cpuinfo - displays the CPU information
> free - shows amount of memory
> 
Also for example

sudo lshw | less      or
sudo lshw > hardware.txt      (or your file name of choice )

(If you don't do it as root or with sudo it will complain that you
should ;)

Peter