The Isenkram
-system 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.
-
-
Here is an command line example from my Thinkpad laptop:
-
-
-% isenkram-lookup
-bluez
-cheese
-ethtool
-fprintd
-fprintd-demo
-gkrellm-thinkbat
-hdapsd
-libpam-fprintd
-pidgin-blinklight
-thinkfan
-tlp
-tp-smapi-dkms
-tp-smapi-source
-tpb
-%
-
-
-
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:
-
-
-% /usr/sbin/isenkram-autoinstall-firmware -l
-info: did not find any firmware files requested by loaded kernel modules. exiting
-%
-
-
-
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.
-
-
These are the packages with hardware mappings at the moment. The
-marked packages are also announcing their hardware
-support using AppStream, for everyone to use:
-
-
air-quality-sensor, alsa-firmware-loaders, argyll,
-array-info, avarice, avrdude, b43-fwcutter,
-bit-babbler, bluez, bluez-firmware, brltty,
-broadcom-sta-dkms, calibre, cgminer, cheese, colord,
-colorhug-client, dahdi-firmware-nonfree, dahdi-linux,
-dfu-util, dolphin-emu, ekeyd, ethtool, firmware-ipw2x00, fprintd,
-fprintd-demo, galileo, 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,
-libnxt, libpam-fprintd, lomoco,
-madwimax, minidisc-utils, mkgmap, msi-keyboard, mtkbabel,
-nbc, nqc, nut-hal-drivers, ola,
-open-vm-toolbox, open-vm-tools, openambit, pcgminer, pcmciautils,
-pcscd, pidgin-blinklight, printer-driver-splix,
-pymissile, python-nxt, qlandkartegt,
-qlandkartegt-garmin, rosegarden, rt2x00-source, sispmctl,
-soapysdr-module-hackrf, solaar, squeak-plugins-scratch, sunxi-tools,
-t2n, 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
-
-
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
-add AppStream
-metadata according to the guidelines to provide the information
-for everyone. In time, I hope to get rid of the isenkram specific
-hardware mapping and depend exclusively on AppStream.
-
-
Note, the AppStream metadata for broadcom-sta-dkms is matching too
-much hardware, and suggest that the package with with any ethernet
-card. See bug #838735 for
-the details. I hope the maintainer find time to address it soon. In
-the mean time I provide an override in isenkram.
-
