I want to check which drivers are running on my ubuntu 12.04 laptop. So I tried to install device manager. I typed sudo apt-get install gnome-device-manager but it returned a gnome-device-manager not found
So can anyone tell me how to install a device manager?
13 Answers
since that doens't work anymore you can take this device manager instead :
by using : sudo apt-get install hardinfo
Yeah there are various tools around but the most useful for diagnostic purposes tends to be the simplest. In our case we often ask people to post various outputs of lspci and lsusb.
For example lspci -nnk | grep net -A2 shows us networking information, including the Kernel module (the driver):
$ lspci -nnk | grep net -A2
09:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller [10ec:8168] (rev 03) Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Motherboard [1458:e000] Kernel driver in use: r8169
0a:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller [10ec:8168] (rev 03) Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Motherboard [1458:e000] Kernel driver in use: r8169It doesn't need root and it doesn't need to be installed.
I cover more techniques in another question:
If you can't install gnome-device-manager, you can choose the same application. Sysinfo is an application that have function such as gnome-device-manager. You just type a command in terminal
sudo apt-get install sysinfoWait until the installation done. If was done, please run the program and you will see information about your device manager in Linux Ubuntu.
