[ubuntu-in] Missing tools in Ubuntu 8.10

[Vishal Rao]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 10:52 AM, ramnarayan.k at gmail.com
<ramnarayan.k at gmail.com> wrote:
> was trying to use hal - the gui device manager or something it was
> called, which used to be in system -> administration in Ubuntu (atleast
> till 7.10) now i cannot find it.

was it the kde-hal-device-manager package? i just did "aptitude search
hal" and that was the interesting one in the list...this is on hardy
though...

for USB maybe "lsusb -v" is what you need...