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+ <title>Isenkram updated with a lot more hardware-package mappings</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Isenkram_updated_with_a_lot_more_hardware_package_mappings.html</link>
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+ <pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2016 11:55:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description><p><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/isenkram">The Isenkram
+system</a> I wrote two years ago to make it easier in Debian to find
+and install packages to get your hardware dongles to work, is still
+going strong. It is a system to look up the hardware present on or
+connected to the current system, and map the hardware to Debian
+packages. It can either be done using the tools in isenkram-cli or
+using the user space daemon in the isenkram package. The latter will
+notify you, when inserting new hardware, about what packages to
+install to get the dongle working. It will even provide a button to
+click on to ask packagekit to install the packages.</p>
+
+<p>Here is an command line example from my Thinkpad laptop:</p>
+
+<p><pre>
+% isenkram-lookup
+bluez
+cheese
+ethtool
+fprintd
+fprintd-demo
+gkrellm-thinkbat
+hdapsd
+libpam-fprintd
+pidgin-blinklight
+thinkfan
+tlp
+tp-smapi-dkms
+tp-smapi-source
+tpb
+%
+</pre></p>
+
+<p>It can also list the firware package providing firmware requested
+by the load kernel modules, which in my case is an empty list because
+I have all the firmware my machine need:
+
+<p><pre>
+% /usr/sbin/isenkram-autoinstall-firmware -l
+info: did not find any firmware files requested by loaded kernel modules. exiting
+%
+</pre></p>
+
+<p>The last few days I had a look at several of the around 250
+packages in Debian with udev rules. These seem like good candidates
+to install when a given hardware dongle is inserted, and I found
+several that should be proposed by isenkram. I have not had time to
+check all of them, but am happy to report that now there are 97
+packages packages mapped to hardware by Isenkram. 11 of these
+packages provide hardware mapping using AppStream, while the rest are
+listed in the modaliases file provided in isenkram.</p>
+
+<p>These are the packages with hardware mappings at the moment. The
+<strong>marked packages</strong> are also announcing their hardware
+support using AppStream, for everyone to use:</p>
+
+<p>air-quality-sensor, alsa-firmware-loaders, argyll,
+<strong>array-info</strong>, avarice, avrdude, b43-fwcutter,
+bit-babbler, bluez, bluez-firmware, <strong>brltty</strong>,
+<strong>broadcom-sta-dkms</strong>, calibre, cgminer, cheese, colord,
+<strong>colorhug-client</strong>, dahdi-firmware-nonfree, dahdi-linux,
+dfu-util, dolphin-emu, ekeyd, ethtool, firmware-ipw2x00, fprintd,
+fprintd-demo, <strong>galileo</strong>, gkrellm-thinkbat, gphoto2,
+gpsbabel, gpsbabel-gui, gpsman, gpstrans, gqrx-sdr, gr-fcdproplus,
+gr-osmosdr, gtkpod, hackrf, hdapsd, hdmi2usb-udev, hpijs-ppds, hplip,
+ipw3945-source, ipw3945d, kde-config-tablet, kinect-audio-setup,
+<strong>libnxt</strong>, libpam-fprintd, <strong>lomoco</strong>,
+madwimax, minidisc-utils, mkgmap, msi-keyboard, mtkbabel,
+<strong>nbc</strong>, <strong>nqc</strong>, nut-hal-drivers, ola,
+open-vm-toolbox, open-vm-tools, openambit, pcgminer, pcmciautils,
+pcscd, pidgin-blinklight, printer-driver-splix,
+<strong>pymissile</strong>, python-nxt, qlandkartegt,
+qlandkartegt-garmin, rosegarden, rt2x00-source, sispmctl,
+soapysdr-module-hackrf, solaar, squeak-plugins-scratch, sunxi-tools,
+<strong>t2n</strong>, thinkfan, thinkfinger-tools, tlp, tp-smapi-dkms,
+tp-smapi-source, tpb, tucnak, uhd-host, usbmuxd, viking,
+virtualbox-ose-guest-x11, w1retap, xawtv, xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse,
+xserver-xorg-input-wacom, xserver-xorg-video-qxl,
+xserver-xorg-video-vmware, yubikey-personalization and
+zd1211-firmware</p>
+
+<p>If you know of other packages, please let me know with a wishlist
+bug report against the isenkram-cli package, and ask the package
+maintainer to
+<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/AppStream/Guidelines">add AppStream
+metadata according to the guidelines</a> to provide the information
+for everyone. In time, I hope to get rid of the isenkram specific
+hardware mapping and depend exclusively on AppStream.</p>
+
+<p>Note, the AppStream metadata for broadcom-sta-dkms is matching too
+much hardware, and suggest that the package with with any ethernet
+card. See <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/838735">bug #838735</a> for
+the details. I hope the maintainer find time to address it soon. In
+the mean time I provide an override in isenkram.</p>
+</description>
+ </item>
+
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<title>Oolite, a life in space as vagabond and mercenary - nice free software</title>
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- <title>My own self balancing Lego Segway</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/My_own_self_balancing_Lego_Segway.html</link>
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- <pubDate>Fri, 4 Nov 2016 10:15:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>A while back I received a Gyro sensor for the NXT
-<a href="mindstorms.lego.com">Mindstorms</a> controller as a birthday
-present. It had been on my wishlist for a while, because I wanted to
-build a Segway like balancing lego robot. I had already built
-<a href="http://www.nxtprograms.com/NXT2/segway/">a simple balancing
-robot</a> with the kids, using the light/color sensor included in the
-NXT kit as the balance sensor, but it was not working very well. It
-could balance for a while, but was very sensitive to the light
-condition in the room and the reflective properties of the surface and
-would fall over after a short while. I wanted something more robust,
-and had
-<a href="https://www.hitechnic.com/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&key=NGY1044">the
-gyro sensor from HiTechnic</a> I believed would solve it on my
-wishlist for some years before it suddenly showed up as a gift from my
-loved ones. :)</p>
-
-<p>Unfortunately I have not had time to sit down and play with it
-since then. But that changed some days ago, when I was searching for
-lego segway information and came across a recipe from HiTechnic for
-building
-<a href="http://www.hitechnic.com/blog/gyro-sensor/htway/">the
-HTWay</a>, a segway like balancing robot. Build instructions and
-<a href="https://www.hitechnic.com/upload/786-HTWayC.nxc">source
-code</a> was included, so it was just a question of putting it all
-together. And thanks to the great work of many Debian developers, the
-compiler needed to build the source for the NXT is already included in
-Debian, so I was read to go in less than an hour. The resulting robot
-do not look very impressive in its simplicity:</p>
-
-<p align="center"><img width="70%" src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2016-11-04-lego-htway-robot.jpeg"></p>
-
-<p>Because I lack the infrared sensor used to control the robot in the
-design from HiTechnic, I had to comment out the last task
-(taskControl). I simply placed /* and */ around it get the program
-working without that sensor present. Now it balances just fine until
-the battery status run low:</p>
-
-<p align="center"><video width="70%" controls="true">
- <source src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2016-11-04-lego-htway-balancing.ogv" type="video/ogg">
-</video></p>
-
-<p>Now we would like to teach it how to follow a line and take remote
-control instructions using the included Bluetooth receiver in the NXT.</p>
-
-<p>If you, like me, love LEGO and want to make sure we find the tools
-they need to work with LEGO in Debian and all our derivative
-distributions like Ubuntu, check out
-<a href="http://wiki.debian.org/LegoDesigners">the LEGO designers
-project page</a> and join the Debian LEGO team. Personally I own a
-RCX and NXT controller (no EV3), and would like to make sure the
-Debian tools needed to program the systems I own work as they
-should.</p>
-</description>
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