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Subject  :  OS/2 command to check hardware configuration
Author  :  Sam
Date  :  21 Apr, 2004 on 18:14
Is there any command in OS/2 which can display hardware information for the system it is installed ? I am looking for a utility which act like MSD in DOS

Thanks in advance


Subject  :  Re:OS/2 command to check hardware configuration
Author  :  Radek hajek@vuv.cz
Date  :  21 Apr, 2004 on 18:26
The Hardware Manager. It's a part of the operating system. You will get a complete list of all hardware, recognized by your system. If you (double) click a particular item on the list, you will get detailed information about resources used by the item (memory usage, ports, IRQs, DMAs, etc.)

Subject  :  Re:OS/2 command to check hardware configuration
Author  :  Sam
Date  :  21 Apr, 2004 on 18:38
Thank first for the quick reply.

Would you mind to tell me more ?
a. I am using Warp 3, do that utility exist ?
b. If yes, which command is used to invoke this ?

Thanks again


Subject  :  Re:OS/2 command to check hardware configuration
Author  :  Admin os2wmast@os2world.com
Date  :  21 Apr, 2004 on 19:05
Well, if you want to dump out plain ascii there is always pci.exe that can be downloaded from Hobbes as it's not part of OS2. But an excellent tool to get hardware info. I've attached it to this message as well.

Subject  :  Re:OS/2 command to check hardware configuration
Author  :  davidfor
Date  :  22 Apr, 2004 on 01:05

Radek (21 Apr, 2004 18:26):
The Hardware Manager. It's a part of the operating system. You will get a complete list of all hardware, recognized by your system. If you (double) click a particular item on the list, you will get detailed information about resources used by the item (memory usage, ports, IRQs, DMAs, etc.)

Unfortunately, this isn't correct. The only things that Hardware Manager shows is hardware that has installed drivers that register themselves with the Resource Manager. A large percentage of drivers don't do this - I don't know of any network card drivers that do, and few sound drivers do.

There are a few ways to get details of the other hardware:

- PCI.EXE has been suggested. This gives a list of all the PCI hardware attached whether it has a driver or not.

- RMVIEW is a supplied command that will display lots of details of both registered and unregistered hardware. There is at least one GUI front-end for it on hobbes.

- There is an extra program supplied in Warp4, and I think Warp3, that supplies a lot of info. Unfortunately, I didn't install it with eCS, and have completely forgotten it's name.

- SysInfo/2 is someones attempt to produce a clone of Symantec SystemInfo. It seems to be fairly complete in the info it displays, though I've just discovered it is not working on my system. It's on hobbes.


David

Subject  :  Re:OS/2 command to check hardware configuration
Author  :  Zawiah zawiah.saki@qpdbcom.force9.co.uk
Date  :  22 Apr, 2004 on 15:35

Sam (21 Apr, 2004 18:14):
Is there any command in OS/2 which can display hardware information for the system it is installed ? I am looking for a utility which act like MSD in DOS

Thanks in advance


You can still probably use MSD as it is part of the shared code. Providing you've not deleted it! Simply open a command prompt and type "MSD" and hit return. It works just the same and will print reports and so on. I am not aware of any problems with using this in Warp.


Zawiah

Subject  :  Re:OS/2 command to check hardware configuration
Author  :  Sam
Date  :  22 Apr, 2004 on 18:39
Admin, davidfor, Zawiah

Thank you very much for your hints.


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