De: Robert M. Albrecht [mailto:romal at gmx.de] Enviado el: mi? 30/04/2008 8:33 Para: PEDRO MACANAS VALVERDE CC: devel at linuxdriverproject.org Asunto: Re: Linux Driver Project Status Report as of April 2008 Hi, >> Include information about "works perfectly out of the box" would be >>usefull to know the hardware is linux compatible and how to solve an >>installation problem in some distros. >This information is in the database, kind of. If you send your smolt-profile the tools display an url and a password. On this url you can rate your hardware: works out of the box, needs a third party driver, does not work, crashes the system, ... >Im not sure, how this data is actually used. Good. But, what about when your hardware is not autodetected by the system ?. >> This is fundamental. For this, we can use > http://smolts.org/wiki/Category:Works_out_of_the_box in the wiki. And use > documentation from other GFDL wikis and webpages, hardware with the Linux > logo (Tux) and so on, to create and improve the Linux compatibility database >I don`t think a wiki-page is the right solution. It should be a database with a webfrontend: >I want to buy: "DropDown" <Search> >DropDown could include: printer, scanner, graphics card, laptop, ... >Wiki-Pages should be used for additional informations on specific devices for links to vendors, faq, ... Good!. I agree. The wiki is a suplementary information site. If there is no information about a device in the database, users can add it to the Wiki (i.e. links to linuxdriverproject.org about creation of a new driver). >> Mapping pci id to a physical device sitting in a box is an almost > impossible task. Same goes for USB devices (are you going to be able to > tell the difference between two different versions of a device > properly?) >This could be done by wiki fulltext search functions. I agree wiki can be a fundamental tool (using also categories as proposed, for printer, scanner, all-in-one printer, graphics card, laptop, modem, wireless card, router, ...) >> In any case, we could link the hardware with the Kernel drivers (i.e. the > driver for Huawei E220 can be used as an example). What is the best way to > do it? >It`s not only the kernel. I would even say, the kernel is the least problem. Kernels drivers are quite complete and installation of modern Linux distributions is very easy. >The hard tasks are sitting on top the kernel: x.org, printers, bluetooth cellphones, ... >There could be a gui-tool like Windows hardware-wizard. If the basic operating systems is up and running this tool assists the user in configuring his additional devices. This hardware-wizard could be HAL-based. Some ideaa: clicking in an un-configured device, the hardware-wizard would open a configuration tab (although I prefere zeroconf - transparent- devices). And "Ethernet-over-USB" for my USB cellular modem (Huawei E220) to work in a way similar to my old ADSL modem (it used DHCP). This also can be changed in options: click in the device icon does a connection (generally an Internet connnection). Clicking again, disconnect the device from the network. Internet configuration sharing is also a good idea (i.e. share USB cellular modem over a WiFi home network). >cu romal Good work!!. Pedro.