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Device Manager equivalent in Linux

 
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Maaz
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Device Manager equivalent in Linux

OS: redhat ent/SUSE ent

is there any tool(gui) like "Device Manager" in Windows ?

is there any command that will show the devices conneted/detected ?

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Maaz
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Alexander Chuzhoy
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Re: Device Manager equivalent in Linux

hwbrowser is a gui tool to show (just to show) the detected devices.
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Ivan Krastev
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Re: Device Manager equivalent in Linux

Another tool is dmidecode - http://www.nongnu.org/dmidecode/


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ivan
Steven E. Protter
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Re: Device Manager equivalent in Linux

Shalom,

I use Alexander's solution.

Remote from Linux in GUI mode.

ssh -X hostname /usr/bin/hwbrowser

Requires root access. Roughly displays hardware. No changes possible from that interface.

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George Liu_4
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Re: Device Manager equivalent in Linux

dmidecode is more preferred
MHudec
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Re: Device Manager equivalent in Linux

My bit useless answer with important vote for dmidecode.
dirk dierickx
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Re: Device Manager equivalent in Linux

on rh4 with hal, you'll also have hal-device-manager (it is an X app).