How to view what hardware has been detected in FC6
Anne Wilson
cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk
Wed Dec 13 20:12:20 UTC 2006
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
Anne
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