Hi,
I am Sam. I work in the development of a system on the linux platform. With regard to this, I need to get the status of some hardware present on my PC. Are there User space APIs that allow me to probe the status of a hardware such as the Ethernet Card, Serial Ports, Flash Memory or WLAN cards???? I feel there should be mechanisms of doing so. There have to be APIs that return the working conditions of the hardware......Can anyone throw some light on the same?????

Thank You and Regards.....
SAM