How to view what hardware has been detected in FC6
John Bowden
john.bowden43 at blueyonder.co.uk
Thu Dec 14 17:30:44 UTC 2006
On Wednesday 13 December 2006 20:13, Rick Stevens wrote:
> 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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Don't seem to have that particular option. Have also looked in administration
and settings. Any one know what package i need to install to get it?
Just done a search in the package manager, it wouldn't be hwbrowser by any
chance?
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