Hi,

If my shift engg is installed new hardware part of linux system.
so how can i check without restarting system whats part is added and which port.

sandeep

Hi,

Try issue this command from terminal (be root first):

or this,

Hope it helps.

By the way, to walk through what device are found in the usb ports you may also use this:

to see what is preoccupying currently the memory top may be enough:

or
to check if any new disk is attached you'd find:

Good luck.

as root will show what's installed in your system. Assuming you know what was there before, you should be able to tell any changes.

Play Bonny!

lshw will also show you what is installed in the system.

Seems to be a buggy program in version 02.14-1build1 packaged in Ubuntu 10.10. Some binary garbage in the output in some strings that obviously should have no binary.

Opps, I forgot, there is also hardinfo.

Odd. Maybe its a ubuntu bug, I dont recall ever having that sort of output with debian/sidux/aptosid. I'd doubt it would help, but it would be intersting to see if lshw-gtk spewed out the same garbage.

lshw-gtk seems to be worse. While I don't see the binary garbage output, I actually see not much output. And what it does show for the disk drives is missing the important SATA drives at sda, sdf, and sdg. It does show the drives sdb, sdc, sdd, and sde that are used for the USB memory card reader. It shows sde with specific media, but it doesn't have any. This thing is far less useful.

Even odder.

BTW, lshw should be run in root/'su' mode. I always get the warnings about lshw if I use it as a normal user-

I doubt it would do anything as far as the garbage output goes, but as root you should see the SATA drives etc.. I cant say I've played with lshw-gtk that much, I dont really need the output in a GUI. But Id suspect that the output will be the same from lshw and lshw-gtk in normal user and as root. In most cases anyway, if there is a buggy version of lshw with whatever distro you are using then that could change.