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Identify "COM port"

Asked by Allen

Hi,

I'm running Xubuntu.

I need to determine which COM Ports are available on my PC.
(Windows has "Device Manager").

I've tried some terminal commands that return dialogues that are meaningless to a NON-Geek.

Any help is appreciated.

THX

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

sudo apt-get install-lshw-gtk
sudo lshw-gtk

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Allen (allenwg2005) said : 		#2

Thanks for responding Andrew.

I copied and pasted the command you suggested and got the following.

allen@allen-ThinkPad-T500:~$ sudo apt-get install-lshw-gtk
[sudo] password for allen:
E: Invalid operation install-lshw-gtk
allen@allen-ThinkPad-T500:~$

Is there a syntax error?

Thanks again

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

Sorry, typo

sudo apt-get install lshw-gtk
sudo lshw-gtk

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Allen (allenwg2005) said : 		#4

I figured it was a typo.

I am completely in the dark as to why it says "bus is not in root".
lshw opens, it shows nothing due to the "IBUS-WARRNING" / root conflict.

Any idea what's going on here?

allen@allen-ThinkPad-T500:~$ sudo apt-get install lshw-gtk
[sudo] password for allen:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libboost-regex1.54.0 libboost-signals1.54.0 libeigen3-dev liboce-foundation8
  liboce-modeling8 liboce-ocaf-lite8 liboce-ocaf8 liboce-visualization8
  libtcl8.5 linux-headers-3.13.0-24 linux-headers-3.13.0-24-generic
  linux-headers-3.13.0-44 linux-headers-3.13.0-44-generic
  linux-headers-3.13.0-63 linux-headers-3.13.0-63-generic
  linux-headers-3.13.0-65 linux-headers-3.13.0-65-generic
  linux-headers-3.13.0-79 linux-headers-3.13.0-79-generic
  linux-headers-3.13.0-83 linux-headers-3.13.0-83-generic
  linux-image-3.13.0-24-generic linux-image-3.13.0-44-generic
  linux-image-3.13.0-63-generic linux-image-3.13.0-65-generic
  linux-image-3.13.0-79-generic linux-image-3.13.0-83-generic
  linux-image-extra-3.13.0-24-generic linux-image-extra-3.13.0-44-generic
  linux-image-extra-3.13.0-63-generic linux-image-extra-3.13.0-65-generic
  linux-image-extra-3.13.0-79-generic linux-image-extra-3.13.0-83-generic
  openbsd-inetd python-ply tcl8.5
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  lshw-gtk
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 324 kB of archives.
After this operation, 1,662 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe lshw-gtk i386 02.16-2ubuntu1 [324 kB]
Fetched 324 kB in 1s (306 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package lshw-gtk.
(Reading database ... 529756 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../lshw-gtk_02.16-2ubuntu1_i386.deb ...
Unpacking lshw-gtk (02.16-2ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.54ubuntu1.1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.10.1-0ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.1+14.04.20140409-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Setting up lshw-gtk (02.16-2ubuntu1) ...
allen@allen-ThinkPad-T500:~$ sudo lshw-gtk

(lshw-gtk:10442): IBUS-WARNING **: The owner of /home/allen/.config/ibus/bus is not root!

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