lshw: lshw (Hardware Lister) is a small tool to provide detailed information on the hardware configuration of the machine. It can report exact memory configuration, firmware version, mainboard configuration, CPU version and speed, cache configuration, bus speed, etc. In Ubuntu 10.10, It's work without extra package. $ sudo lshw If you use Yum (Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS, etc), run the following command in terminal: $ yum install lshw $ lshw Shorter Output: If you just quickly want to quickly find the chipset version of a piece of hardware is, you can run the following to provide a very short output that should give you what you need: $ sudo lshw -short more info See the man page and visit http://tinyurl.com/lshwsite -- Regards, Tha.Suresh http://thasulinux.wordpress.com