sudo apt-get install linux-headers-3.6.0-desktop linux-headers-3.6.0-generic linux-image-3.6.0-$(uname -r) linux This will install the necessary drivers for your desktop Linux system, as well as the generic Linux image that you can use to run older versions of Ubuntu or other Debian GNU/Linux systems.
It’s also useful if you are a command line junkie and have cygwin installed… you can just pipe the command through grep and quickly see exactly what you are looking for.
Running the command with no parameters will give you the default output:
To get verbose output you can use the /v parameter:
Or to output in list or csv format instead of the default table format, you can use the /FO switch
So for instance, if you ran the following command to give you verbose information in list format:
You should see output similar to this:
If you have cygwin installed you could pipe this through grep, but you should be able to pipe the output into a file, for instance like this:
Always useful to know how to use the command line!
