If you need information on system’s hardware like vendor, manufacturer, product, S/N, etc. you can use:
dmidecode
The dmidecode command reads the information from the system BIOS, see also
http://www.nongnu.org/dmidecode/
.
There are a few other commands you might want to check out which list installed hardware components:
dmesg
lsdev
lshal
lspci
lsusb
lsscsi
