Linux Administration Cookbook

lshw

A particularly useful program, lshw has the built-in ability to output your hardware tree as JSON, XML, HTML, and presumably more as they're developed.

By default, the output of lshw is very verbose, but should look something like the following:

$ sudo lshw localhost.localdomain           description: Computer    product: VirtualBox    vendor: innotek GmbH    version: 1.2    serial: 0    width: 64 bits    capabilities: smbios-2.5 dmi-2.5 vsyscall32<SNIP>     *-pnp00:00          product: PnP device PNP0303          physical id: 3          capabilities: pnp          configuration: driver=i8042 kbd     *-pnp00:01          product: PnP device PNP0f03          physical id: 4          capabilities: pnp          configuration: driver=i8042 aux

I tend to find that at-a-glance solutions can work better a lot of the time. So, with that in mind, let's ...