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Get Linux and FreeBSD hardware info with guide to commands

Get Linux and FreeBSD hardware info with guide to commands: "
Switching between open source OSs can sometimes be confusing, since they may have different ways of doing things. A common task that may confuse some users when switching systems is getting hardware information. In the case of Linux-based OSs and FreeBSD, the following cheat sheet for figuring out how to do the same things on two different systems can ease some of the pain.

CPU and memory information


Because Linux-based systems use the proc device filesystem to provide access to information about hardware devices in the system, getting specific information about the hardware sometimes involves finding it in files using the grep command. The same information is normally accessed on FreeBSD via the sysctl command.

To get information about your CPU model . . .

  • Linux:
    grep model /proc/cpuinfo

  • FreeBSD:
    sysctl hw.model


To get information about total system memory . . .

  • Linux:
    grep MemTotal /proc/meminfo

  • FreeBSD:
    sysctl hw.realmem


Device listings


Information about many other devices might be needed as well. For these, each system has tools designed to provide listings of devices connected to various system buses.

To get information about PCI devices . . .

  • Linux:
    lspci -v

  • FreeBSD:
    pciconf -lv


To get information about USB devices . . .

  • Linux:
    lsusb -v

  • FreeBSD:
    usbconfig


To get other connected device information . . .

  • Linux:
    dmidecode

    This command shows DMI/SMBIOS hardware information.

    lshal

    This command shows all devices managed by the HAL subsystem.
  • FreeBSD:
    atacontrol list

    This command shows all ATA devices.

    camcontrol devlist -v


Notes


Some of the above commands may work from a normal, unprivileged user account. Others may be restricted to root access.

Obviously, on both these OS types, a lot more information can be had by the same means. Check out the rest of the contents of the /proc/cpuinfo and /proc/meminfo files, and poke around amongst the various resources offered by sysctl on FreeBSD. While Linux-based systems offer a sysctl utility as well, it is not as extensively useful a tool as it is on FreeBSD.

On both of these OS types, a lot more information can be had by means similar to those described above. For instance, the /proc/cpuinfo and /proc/meminfo files contain a lot more information than just the CPU model and total memory. There is a sysctl command on Linux-based systems as well as on FreeBSD and other BSD Unix systems, but it is not as broadly useful as on FreeBSD, nor does it offer as comprehensive coverage of the system, because Linux-based systems default to other means of accessing and configuring system configuration values (such as the proc filesystem). On either system type, a picture of sysctl capabilities can be seen by viewing the utility’s manpage.

If you are feeling curious and have some time to spend exploring, sysctl -a outputs all information sysctl has to provide.




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