LPI Linux Certification/Determine And Configure Hardware Settings

Detailed Objective
Weight: 2 Description: Candidates should be able to determine and configure fundamental system hardware.


 * Key knowledge area(s):
 * Enable and disable integrated peripherals.
 * Configure systems with or without external peripherals such as keyboards.
 * Differentiate between the various types of mass storage devices.
 * Set the correct hardware ID for different devices, especially the boot device.
 * Know the differences between coldplug and hotplug devices.
 * Determine hardware resources for devices.
 * Tools and utilities to list various hardware information (e.g. lsusb, lspci, etc.)
 * Tools and utilities to manipulate USB devices
 * Conceptual understanding of sysfs, udev, hald, dbus


 * The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
 * /sys
 * /proc
 * /dev
 * modprobe
 * lsmod
 * lspci
 * lsusb