can't find device manager in Ubuntu 8.04

Hi Lieferd,

Install hal-device-manager

sudo apt-get install hal-device-manager

and do

sudo hal-device-manager

Also, the utility to configure your network connection is network manager which should be sitting in your toolbar in the top right of screen. You can right or left click this to get various configuration options.

I'm new. I take it I'm suppose to type "sudo apt-get install hal-device-manager" in a terminal window. If so it isn't working. When I do I see this:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package hal-device-manager

Please help.

Afternoon,

I was looking for exactly the same thing, a bit of constructive googling suggested that what you want is

gnome-device-manager

You can add it through the Synaptic Package Manager [a search for 'device manager' will bring it up, amongst other things] or presumablty

sudo apt-get install gnome-device-manager

Then to run it you can just run gnome-device-manager from a terminal [it doesn't appear to require a sudo] or you can add it to your System-->Administration menu in the usual fashion for gnome, assuming that is what you are using -

right click the menu bar, 'Edit Menu', 'New Item' in your selected location, and the command is, shockingly, "gnome-device-manager"

The rest of the options there are just the friendly name that appears in the menu, and the alternative text that appears if you hover over the selection.

Incidentally, if anyone is looking for the equivelant module in kde, it appears to be kde-device-manager - but I ain't running KDE here so I can't verify that for sure....!

Thanks, Steven, I had the same problem and solved through very simple recommendations,
lejimon

Thanks from me, as well. Great instructions that worked!

Milan

partitioned my system and unbuntu is on and working but only when i connect wired to the internet!
when i look at the forums then search for my device manager in system/package manager or applications it aint there.

in terminal i tried all the install device manager with the gnome and hal command and not sign of it.

my problem is i cant connect to the internet tru the wireless connection.
help?

partitioned my system and unbuntu is on and working but only when i connect wired to the internet!
when i look at the forums then search for my device manager in system/package manager or applications it aint there.

in terminal i tried all the install device manager with the gnome and hal command and not sign of it.

my problem is i cant connect to the internet tru the wireless connection.
help?

Mouchero,

I just did the following on my workstations terminal here:

sudo apt-get install gnome-device-manager

And the output was as follows:
---------------
testserver@testserver:~$ sudo apt-get install gnome-device-manager
[sudo] password for testserver:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
gnome-device-manager is already the newest version.
---------------

Make sure you are connected to the internet [IE plug it in and check you can get online!] before you start - I don't believe there are any specific requirements for any extra sources to be added to Aptitude to get it. But it's *definitely* a valid package, as it can see I have the latest version.

If in doubt, just copy and paste what I put above into terminal when online, it should work.

If it doesn't then highlight whatever output it gives you, and then go to Edit-->Copy in the terminal menu, and paste text into a post here.

As for your wifi, it's a seperate issue not for this thread as to why it's not working, but as an aside you sometimes need to use something called an NDISWrapper, which - as I understand it - allows you to use a Windows wifi driver to control the wireless device. If you can get the Device Manager running, you can see what kind of wireless adapter it is and then google it, IE "Atheros 1305 Ubuntu Problem". Which I expect was your intention all along!

"Googling it" is what I have done to fix, er, almost every issue I have had with Linux and BSD systems!

Hope that helps!

i got my device manager working on system tools so great !!
ndiswrapper is patched in also but still hitting walls with wireless thanks

The simplest way to install Device Manager:

* Click Applications - > Add/Remove...

* Type 'device manager' in the search box.

* Select 'Device Manager' in the list, and press 'Apply'.

One hopes that this, and gnome-control-center will be installed and visible in future versions of Ubuntu :-)

added !! :)

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Kris Marsh <
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> Question #35890 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/35890
>
> Kris Marsh proposed the following answer:
> The simplest way to install Device Manager:
>
> * Click Applications - > Add/Remove...
>
> * Type 'device manager' in the search box.
>
> * Select 'Device Manager' in the list, and press 'Apply'.
>
>
> One hopes that this, and gnome-control-center will be installed and visible
> in future versions of Ubuntu :-)
>
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And now they wonder why most people still run Windows <insert-any-version> ?

The #1 reason why Windows NT won over Novell...GUI. Not because it was a better product, but because people don't want to spend endless hours, searching in forums for answers to problems that shouldn't be there in the first place.

I have just installed Ubuntu 8.10 in a Virtual machine...and I haven't seen anything which would make me switch from even Vista.

Most of Vista's settings can be changed in the GUI - and no matter where I turn, it's all in one language...

I will admit that the stability, speed and DRM in Vista is bugging me...like it is probably bothering many other people. So if the Linux comunity has ever asked for a good time to make a tremendous gain on Windows...now is the time. But requiring people to type in long lines in a command-shell which isn't even there in the first place...Vista will gain in ease of use, over Ubuntu/Linux...