On Sat, 2008-09-20 at 12:12 +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I should perhaps have mentioned that this is an ancient machine - > I keep it running because it is the only machine I have > with a Centronics printer socket for my HP LaserJet 5L. A new drive would be fairly cheap, and doesn't have to be permanently put into an older machine. On the other hand, you could do what I did: I bought one of those USB to parallel port adaptors, so I could use my HP LaserJet 4L with my laptop. It's a bit slow, but I didn't have a range of different USB adaptors to try out at the time. > But I was thinking that it was a pity Linux/Fedora > does not have something like Windows "My Computer", > where one can see at once what devices can be seen. > Or maybe there is an equivalent? There's a few graphical hardware browser, and there's command line tools like lsusb, lspci, dmesg, etc. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.25.14-108.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
