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Hervé Riboulot <[log in to unmask]>
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Le 19/06/2011 04:59, Yasha Karant a écrit :
> I have installed lshw.  lshw does seem to give an extensive listing, 
> but lshw-gui does not seem to give much.  As with lshw, does lshw-gui 
> need to be run by root?
>
> Also, I have a real 1.44 Mbyte floppy drive installed that goes to the 
> floppy drive controller on the mother board (this particular MSI 
> motherboard has SATA, EIDE, and floppy controllers and connectors on 
> the motherboard).  It worked fine under RHEL 5 (CentOS 5.6) on this 
> motherboard.  Under RHEL 6 (SL 6), I find:
>
> ls -la /dev/fd/*
> ls: cannot access /dev/fd/255: No such file or directory
> ls: cannot access /dev/fd/3: No such file or directory
> lrwx------. 1 ykarant ykarant 64 Jun 18 19:49 /dev/fd/0 -> /dev/pts/0
> lrwx------. 1 ykarant ykarant 64 Jun 18 19:49 /dev/fd/1 -> /dev/pts/0
> lrwx------. 1 ykarant ykarant 64 Jun 18 19:49 /dev/fd/2 -> /dev/pts/0s
>
> but I cannot seem to access these via a mount, even as root, to access 
> a MS-DOS floppy.  Obviously, I am doing something wrong, but what? 
> Moreover, the mtools (that provides MS-DOS compatibility) used to 
> access the floppy drive as A: but now does nothing.  Presumably, once 
> I understand how to access the floppy drive, things will work.  Would 
> a ln -s /dev/floppy to /dev/fd/0 as well as a ln -s /dev/fd0 to 
> /dev/fd/0 work?
>
> Note that the output of lshw does not show the floppy drive, although 
> the hardware listing utility of RHEL 5 did show this. This is the same 
> hardware with no change to the motherboard BIOS -- the motherboard 
> BIOS utility does show the floppy.
>
> I realize that this might have to be re-done upon the next upgrade (to 
> SL 6.1), but otherwise should work until /dev is overwritten.
>
> Yasha Karant
>
> On 06/18/2011 01:16 AM, Hervé Riboulot wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>> 1- Hardware browser: lshw and lsw-gui, from the rpmforge repository,
>> provide a detailed view of the various components of the hardware.
>>
> [snip]
>

Hello,

Lsw (and its GUI) must be run with root's rights.

Regards

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