Tags: english, debian, isenkram
Date: 2016-12-23 10:30
-<p>I received a very nice christmas present today. As my regular
+<p>I received a very nice Christmas present today. As my regular
readers probably know, I have been working on the
<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/isenkram">the Isenkram
-system</a> for many years. It make it easier for users to figure out
-what to install to get a given piece of hardware to work in Debian,
-and a key part of this system is a way to map hardware to packages.
-Isenkram have its own mapping database, and also uses data provided by
-each package using the AppStream metadata format. And today,
+system</a> for many years. The goal of the Isenkram system is to make
+it easier for users to figure out what to install to get a given piece
+of hardware to work in Debian, and a key part of this system is a way
+to map hardware to packages. Isenkram have its own mapping database,
+and also uses data provided by each package using the AppStream
+metadata format. And today,
<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/appstream">AppStream</a> in
Debian learned to look up hardware the same way Isenkram is doing it,
ie using fnmatch():</p>
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+<p>You can find modalias values relevant for your machine using
+<tt>cat $(find /sys/devices/ -name modalias)</tt>.
+
<p>If you want to make this system a success and help Debian users
make the most of the hardware they have, please
help<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/AppStream/Guidelines">add
team also got a nice Christmas present today. The
<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/nxt-firmware">nxt-firmware
package</a> made it into Debian. With this package in place, it is
-not possible to use the LEGO Mindstorms NXT unit with only free
+now possible to use the LEGO Mindstorms NXT unit with only free
software, as the nxt-firmware package contain the source and firmware
binaries for the NXT brick.</p>
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