How To get Harware information in OpenSuse 11

Use YaST, if you want to know more about your hardware or if you need to find out details like vendor and model of a certain hardware to be able to properly configure it. Open yast2 by typing the command "yast2" (you need to be root)



1.In YaST, click Hardware+Hardware Information. Hardware probings starts immediately and it will take some time until you see the hardware information tree in a separate window. Something similar to this ...

2.In the hardware information tree recursively click on the plus icons to expand the information about a specific device.



3.Click Close to leave the hardware information overview.