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@@ -2,14 +2,15 @@ Title: Appstream just learned how to map hardware to packages too!
 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>
@@ -58,6 +59,9 @@ t2n
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 </pre></p>
 
+<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
@@ -74,10 +78,10 @@ complete set of packages in Debian for that particular hardware.  The
 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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