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>Chapter 4. Hardware, Devices, and Tools</H1
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>Hardware Utilities</A
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>4.1.1. <A
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>The <B
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>4.1.2. <A
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>The <B
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>mknod</B
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>4.1.3. <A
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>The <B
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>lspci</B
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>4.1.4. <A
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>The <B
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>lsdev</B
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>The <B
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>lsusb</B
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>The <B
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>lsraid</B
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>4.1.7. <A
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>The <B
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>hdparm</B
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>4.1.8. <A
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>More Hardware Resources</A
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>lsmod</A
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>insmod</A
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>depmod</A
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>4.2.4. <A
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>rmmod</A
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>modprobe</A
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Jimi Hendrix</P
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>This chapter gives an overview of what a device file is, and how to
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create one. The canonical list of device files is
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>/usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt</TT
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if you have
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the Linux kernel source code installed on your system. The devices listed
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here are correct as of kernel version 2.6.8.</P
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