[PLUG] Command line to get list of all hardware/drivers?

[Kok, Auke]

John Jason Jordan wrote:
> On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 07:32:24 -0800
> "Kok, Auke" <sofar at foo-projects.org> dijo:
> 
>>>> there's a debian package called `discover` that collects pci, usb, pcmcia device 
>>>> ID's and appropriate drivers (mostly kernel modules, but also x.org driver name).
> 
>>> I found it in Synaptic, where the current version seems to be discover
>>> 1 and discover1-data. Both were already installed. I tried running it
>>> from the command line but it didn't work:
>>>
>>> jjj at Devil5:~$ discover
>>> open_sock(): Operation not permitted
>>> jjj at Devil5:~$ sudo discover
>>> Password:
>>> jjj at Devil5:~$ sudo discover1
>>> sudo: discover1: command not found
>>> jjj at Devil5:~$ sudo discover
>>> jjj at Devil5:~$ 
>>>
>>> I googled and discovered that it doesn't really "work." It is used to
>>> detect hardware during bootup. So it doesn't create a report or
>>> anything I could put into a text document.
> 
>> discover-modprobe -v
> 
> Still doesn't work. I just get Command Not Found.

you'll definately need version 2. version 1 is outdated for about 2 years now. 
Should be relatively easy to compile from source.

Cheers,

Auke