lanoche - laptop or notebook check, generates a HTML report
showing hardware information about your laptop. May be used
as a framework to create your own "Linux on my Favorite Laptop" page.
Currently version 0.7 is out.
Download gzipped tar file or
download Debian package 11KB,
a lanoche(http://packages.debian.org/lanoche) Debian/GNU Linux package is available, too.
You may see an example report for a SONY VAIO F-403.
Finally a much better tool lshw - list hardware(http://ezix.sourceforge.net/) was written by Lyonel Vincent. A lshw(http://packages.debian.org/lshw) Debian/GNU Linux package is available, too.