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+<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?><section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:ns5="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:ns4="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:ns3="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:ns2="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:ns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" version="5.0" xml:lang="hi" xml:id="lspcidrake">
+ <info>
+ <title xml:id="lspcidrake-ti1">Display Your PCI, USB and PCMCIA Information</title>
+
+ <subtitle>lspcidrake</subtitle>
+ </info>
+
+ <para>This tool <footnote>
+ <para>You can start this tool from the command line, by typing <emphasis
+role="bold">lspcidrake</emphasis>.</para>
+ </footnote> can only be started and used
+on the command line. It will give some more information if used under root.</para>
+
+ <para>lspcidrake gives the list of all the connected devices to the computer (USB,
+PCI and PCMCIA) and the used drivers. It needs the ldetect and ldetect-lst
+packages to work.</para>
+
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="lspcidrake1.png"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+
+ <para>With the -v option, lspcidrake adds the vendor and device identifications.</para>
+
+ <para>lspcidrake often generates very long lists, so, to find an information, it
+is often used in a pipeline with the grep command, like in these examples:</para>
+
+ <para>Information about the graphic card;</para>
+
+ <para><command>lspcidrake | grep VGA</command></para>
+
+ <para>Information about the network</para>
+
+ <para><command>lspcidrake | grep -i network</command></para>
+
+ <para>-i to ignore case distinctions.</para>
+
+ <para>In this screenshot below, you can see the action of the -v option for
+lspcidrake and the -i option for grep.</para>
+
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="lspcidrake2.png"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+
+ <para>There is another tool that gives information about the hardware, it is
+called <emphasis role="bold">dmidecode</emphasis> (under root)</para>
+</section> \ No newline at end of file