[Drivers] Checking PCI components in terminal (grep)

Owned by Joey Houy (Unlicensed)
Nov 15, 2016

Quick reference for checking for specific hardware (and their drivers) installed in your system.

Step-by-step guide

  1. Open up a terminal

You can search for specific manufacturers/type by using the following examples. The 'grep -i' allows you to view driver information.

lspci | grep -i intel

lspci | grep -i xeon

lspci | grep -i network

lspci | grep -i nvidia
# 'nvidia-smi' will work too if you have NVIDIA GPU's installed

You can also type in 'man lspci' for detailed info and uses for lspci