Attached is a perl script intended to be used to gather info on
the graphics, ethernet, and wifi hardware on a given machine.
The idea is that we could use this script to compare the hardware
of various machines so we could weed out machines that are
effectively duplicates (e.g. we might have an Acer laptop and
a Toshiba laptop that use the same chipsets, so once we've
tested one the other won't be of so much interest).
Also, on machines where there are problems with an install,
it can be used to gather info on the underlying hardware in
a consistent manner.
The script relies on 'prtconf -v' and 'scanpci', and since
scanpci requires root permissions you'll need to execute
the script with those perms for everything to work. Please
try it out on machines you have available and let me know
if there are any issues with it finding the HW.
To execute, just do:
sidevinfo
which will restrict the output to devices it thinks are
graphics, ethernet, or wifi. You can also tell it to
report on all devices by using the -a flag:
sidevinfo -a
Regards,
Andre
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