Hwinfo

Hardware Information Tool (hwinfo) is a small utility created by OpenSUSE to gather information on system hardware.

Emerge
can be installed with a simple :

Configuration
Since the tool is so lightweight configuration is not necessary.

Usage
To probe for hardware information simply issue:

To probe for all hardware information use:

This usually takes longer, but provides oodles of information.

To shorten information to a more human-friendly format, add the  option to the command:

To specify a log file for hwinfo to write, use. This is different from standard redirection, but should be used for :