get device information

[lakshmi123]

Hi friends,
How to get a device information connected to the system...manufacture...sl no... etc..
of devices lik mouse, keyboard..etc........

Thanks in advance

[lugoteehalt]

Think
$ lside
list ide devices. But it looks wrong, so try
$ ls<tab><tab>

Also the /proc file system contains all sorts of stuff. Something like /proc/cpuinfo will give info on the cpu. There's all sorts of other ways of getting stuff about the box.

[daark.child]

If you need detailed info, install "hwinfo". Its not installed by default on many distros, but it shows very verbose information about the hardware on your system. Other commands to look at are lshw (which again is not installed by default on many distros), lspci, lsusb and dmesg.