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[Eric Schabell <eric AT schabell.com>]

On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 08:03:42PM +0100, Wolfgang Scheicher wrote:
> 
> Hi Unet, Hi all
> 
> i'm experimenting a bit with hardware detection
> ( maybe i can somewhen do a live cd )
> 
> Unet: i know you've been doing work on hardware detection too, what is the 
> status?
> 
> All others: does anyone else have Experience with that?
> 
> About what i did yet:
> i didn't feel like using kudzu, i tried discover.
> looks quite nice.
> 
> i did create 2 spells:
> discover and discover-data
> shall i put them into utils?
> 
> Anyone else interested in helping?
> 
There has been a reference bug to hardware detection sw that is freely
available from knoppix (arguably one of the best at this):

http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3601

Not much happened with it since it was raised in the summer of 2003. It
always seems to me to be such a shame to keep reinventing the wheel...

erics

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