How to view what hardware has been detected in FC6

[Rick Stevens]

On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 20:07 +0000, John Bowden wrote:
> Hi Folks
> Finally got FC6 installed and updated on primary drive, after some fun and 
> games tying to install it on second drive. I'm using the KDE window manager 
> and would like to know how to see what hardware FC6 has found and configured.
> I'm not quite a Linux newbie as I have been useing Mandrake / Mandriva, (No 
> flaming please ;-)) for a while now, though this is my first time using 
> Fedora.

Welcome to the fold, oh fellow target drone!

> I am a bit of a command line newbie in Linux, Mandriva has some very good GUI 
> configuration tools which tends to make one very lazy but I don't mind using 
> the command line (I have just downloaded a book on how to use the command 
> line and will start perusing it as soon as possible)

Under KDE, use "FedoraLogo->System->Hardware".  A useful command-line
tool is "sysreport", but it also reports which software packages are
installed as well and takes a while to run.

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