To run a command as administrator (user "root"), use "sudo <command>".
See "man sudo_root" for details.
wilkerson@ubuntu:~$ sudo lshw -C network
[sudo] password for wilkerson:
Sorry, try again.
[sudo] password for wilkerson:
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 01
serial: 00:21:97:c1:0e:2c
size: 100Mbit/s
capacity: 100Mbit/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm vpd msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=full latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=100Mbit/s
resources: irq:40 ioport:d800(size=256) memory:fe9ff000-fe9fffff memory:fe9c0000-fe9dffff
wilkerson@ubuntu:~$