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  • From: Aaron Brice <abrice2 AT cox.net>
  • To: Dufflebunk <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>
  • Cc: Nick Jennings <nkj AT namodn.com>, sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] So who's been playing with hardware detection?
  • Date: 29 Sep 2002 17:41:08 -0700

I got kudzu to install from the source rpm a while ago. It detected
hardware ok, but if I tried to get it to set up anything it would
crash. I couldn't find any information about what it's doing or how to
configure it, and I didn't want to go through the code, so I gave up at
that point.

If anyone's going to play with kudzu, make sure you grab the hwdata
spell that was just submitted.

Aaron

On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 12:28, Dufflebunk wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 14:20, Nick Jennings wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 01:44:42PM -0400, Dufflebunk wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 13:26, Nick Jennings wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 04:17:03PM +0100, Mark Andrews wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Discover: Outputs XML which will need parsing. Otherwise looks like
> > > > > a
> > > > > contender. So far this looks the most promising to me.
> > > >
> > > > Including an XML parser in the install could create difficulties.
> > > > Seems like overkill...
> > >
> > > Luckily, a full parser shouldn't be necessary. One that cheats would be
> > > enough.
> >
> > True.
> >
> >
> > > > > SystemConfigurator: Another one worth investigating
> > > > >
> > > > > Others (kudzu etc): Not looked at in any depth
> > > >
> > > > Why haven't you taken a look at kudzu? It seems to be a pretty
> > > > reliable implementation...
> > >
> > > kudzu is RedHat and has a lot of redhat specific things built in. It
> > > would require patching the code. The src is another problem. A month or
> > > two ago I went in search of the kudzu source code and couldn't find it.
> > > It may be hiding in some .src.rpm though.
> >
> > Are you sure it's all redhat-specific? I know Debian has packaged kudzu,
> > and although they haven't incorporated it into their install process
> > it seemed to work fine...
>
> Nope, didn't look at debian. Could be I just missed the info. Debian
> should have the sources hanging around then, perhaps even in non rpm
> format.
>
> >
> > Are you sure it doesn't just detect hardware, get the info, and then
> > lets some modular redhat-specific script actually do what needs to be
> > done to get the peice of hardware running?
>
> Couldn't tell you. I couldn't look at the source.
>
> >
> > The hard to get source is a problem though...
>
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