How to config new hardware in fc5?

Hongwei Li hongwei at wustl.edu
Fri May 26 15:09:08 UTC 2006


> On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 11:18 -0500, Hongwei Li wrote:
>> I just install a new tape drive in my fc5 box.  I am using gnome.  In my fc4
>> box, I can use Hardware Browser to find and config it. I could not find
>> similar tool to set up new hardware.  Can somebody tell me how to do it? or
>> I
>> need to install something else? I have installed:
>> gnome-panel.i386                         2.14.0-1
>> gnome-utils.i386                         1:2.14.0-3
>
> On my FC4 box I can use the "hwbrowser" program to browse the hardware,
> see what it is, but it cannot configure anything.  And as far as I can
> recall when setting up FC5 for someone else, it's the same package name
> (yum install hwbrowser).
>
> Tip:  Can't remember the complete name of something, but remember part
> of it?  Use something like "yum search browse" to try and find it.
>
> --
> (Currently running FC4, in case that's important to the thread)
>

Thank you very much!  It works.

Hongwei




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