Hi, Mike did actually build the wiki, but it?s hard to find: http://smolts.org/wiki/System/Sony_Corporation/VGN-FE31Z_C3LMPJWX http://smolts.org/show?UUID=pub_7152989c-0fbc-4b3f-b9f8-c88f9a630453 http://smolts.org/wiki/pci/8086/4222/8086/1051 The basic work is there, it just needs to be polished and promoted. cu romal Robert M. Albrecht schrieb: > Hi, > > Fedoras Mike McGrath has started Smolt. Smolt is included since Fedora 7 > and supports Ubuntu, Suse, ... > > Smolt collects hw-informations and sends them to a central server. This > is done once while installation and regulary while running the system. > > https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/smolt > > Example: if you want to know, which network interfaces are used: > > http://smolts.org/static/stats/by_class_NETWORK.html > > The idea was discussed to link this data to wiki-pages, so users can > contribute to a hw-database: drivers, howtos, status reports, ... > > I think it has failed before, because the database would be large and > needs to be updated very often. But Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap shows, > this is possible. If every user does only contribute his two PCs, we > could cover all eixsting hardware. > > cu romal > > > > Linux Driver Project Status Report as of April 2008 > Greg KH greg at kroah.com > Tue Apr 8 21:20:15 PDT 2008 > > * Previous message: Linux Driver Project Status Report as of April 2008 > * Next message: Linux Driver Project Status Report as of April 2008 > * Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] > > On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 03:04:58PM +0200, PEDRO MACANAS VALVERDE wrote: > > Very very well put. I strongly support this idea of "base", "common" > > or "centralized" h/w compatibility list (and correspondence between > > hardware make and model and driver name). > > Too bad it's pretty much an impossible task :) > > It's been tried before, and failed. If anyone wants to try this again, > please at least study what failed before and seriously reconsider the > idea, it is something that I personally think can never be achieved, you > will _always_ be playing catchup. > > good luck, > > greg k-h > >
