Frederick J. Harris
August 1st, 2008, 12:00 PM
I just did a fresh install of 8.04 Hardy Heron on one of my test laptops on which I had 6.1 Edgy Eft. There is no "Device Manager" on the System >> Administration menu as there is with Edgy Eft. I'm in the same boat as several other fellows on this thread which doesn't appear to have been successfully resolved...
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=858297&highlight=Device+Manager
This Device Manager applet or whatever it is provides critical technical information. How can I get it installed on Hardy Heron? I will do that tonight when I get home to my dsl connection if I know what to install. What I'm trying to do is follow the instructions in Kier Thomas's "Beginning Ubuntu Linux" so that I may learn how to use ndiswrapper. In that book he describes how to glean important info from "Device Manager", but apparently this subsystem was removed from Hardy Heron. I realize this technical info can probably (surely) be obtained through the command line, but a GUI interface to it would be nice. I can't believe something like this was removed from the basic install!
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=858297&highlight=Device+Manager
This Device Manager applet or whatever it is provides critical technical information. How can I get it installed on Hardy Heron? I will do that tonight when I get home to my dsl connection if I know what to install. What I'm trying to do is follow the instructions in Kier Thomas's "Beginning Ubuntu Linux" so that I may learn how to use ndiswrapper. In that book he describes how to glean important info from "Device Manager", but apparently this subsystem was removed from Hardy Heron. I realize this technical info can probably (surely) be obtained through the command line, but a GUI interface to it would be nice. I can't believe something like this was removed from the basic install!