[wplug] disappearing cdrom on a laptop.

[harrold at sage.che.pitt.edu]

Sometime in July John S. Post assaulted keyboard and produced...

|John, try this:
|
|>From the Red Hat Linux 7.3:
|The Official Red Hat Linux Customization Guide:
|Chapter 20: Gathering System Information
|
|(Hardware)
|
|If you are having trouble configuring your hardware or just want to know
|what hardware is in your system, you can use the Hardware Browser
|application to display the hardware that can be probed. To start the
|program, type hwbrowser at a shell prompt. It displays your CD-ROM
|devices, floppy disks, hard drives and their partitions, network
|devices, pointing devices, system devices, and video cards. Click on the
|category name in the left menu, and the information will be displayed. 
|
|- John S. Post
|

see this is really weird. the cdrom  doesn't show up anywhere down there.
i'm wondering if plug and play os or something is enabled in the bios. the
computer is currently locked in a room, so i only have network access. i'll
check it out around 10.30.
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