How to view what hardware has been detected in FC6

Manuel Arostegui manuel at todo-linux.com
Thu Dec 14 10:18:53 UTC 2006


On Thu, December 14, 2006 04:18, Ric Moore wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 20:12 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
>
>> On Wednesday 13 December 2006 20:07, 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.
>>
>> Hi, John.  Flame?  <grin> There are a lot of us ex-MDVers here.  You'll soon
>> find your feet.  The differences are off-putting at first, but superficial.
>>
>>> 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)
>>
>> You may need to install a couple of extra packages.  lshw and dmidecode will
>> give you huge amounts of info about your system.  HTH
> Which package gives lshw?? Thanks! Ric

Ric, lshw is also the package name :-)
All the best.

Manuel.




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