Detect Library can be used in any program that needs to perform hardware detection. Its API (in C) is very easy to learn and use. It can detect many devices like bridges, CPUs, network cards, floppy drives, ISDN cards, parallel ports, printers, scanners, and tapes on many busses like PCMCIA, PCI, USB, and SCSI.
| Tags | Software Development Libraries |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPLv2 |
| Operating Systems | POSIX Linux |
| Implementation | C |
| Translations | French |
Recent releases


Changes: A new framework. Speed has been greatly improved. No need to be root anymore to use it. Use of cmake. Functions to get detection information. Many fixes.


Changes: Many fixes were made for areas such as USB code and freeing memory.


Changes: IDE/SCSI vendorname is handled. table2lst ISA has been fixed. Options to disable any busses are handled.


Changes: Better USB and ISA handling. PDA support. Many fixes and clean-ups. Many lst device updates and adds.


Changes: This version was synchronized with the latest Mandriva tables. The superprobe code was removed. CPU handling was improved. Many fixes were made for i18n, CPU, and memory detection bugs.