identify your hardware

Posted by Anurag in utilities
Tuesday, April 18. 2006

Prasanta asked me a week back,
How to identify if a given shell server is running on a 32bit or 64bit hardware?

We pondered over it and thought of all possible options, $ arch, /proc/cpuinfo, etc.. but yesterday i came across this nifty utility $ lshw.. Try it now if you can.. trust me you'll love it.. And for prasanta, this is how i identified it is 32bit computer.



$ lshw

[snip]

fiona.gnuer.org

    description: Notebook

    product: 2374R79

    vendor: IBM

    version: ThinkPad T42

    serial: L3F4446

    width: 32 bits

    capabilities: smbios-2.33 dmi-2.33

[snip]

One may install lshw-gtk as well for a Mac File explorer like interface for browsing hardware properties.

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Prasanta Baruah - #1 - 2006-04-20 12:35 - (Reply)

Thanks for the info. I would have otherwise use the file cmd to know it.

digen - #2 - 2006-04-20 18:16 - (Reply)

Cool info there GNU.Works like a charm

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