X-Git-Url: http://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/blobdiff_plain/d3fbd9444b0cfd17804efa2992f361e6d31fbd0f..2303a53e3000b721cc73c3bfe81b6d2911b51a35:/blog/data/2013-01-09-hw-autoinstall.txt diff --git a/blog/data/2013-01-09-hw-autoinstall.txt b/blog/data/2013-01-09-hw-autoinstall.txt index cec9f59cfe..9fbebd3f28 100644 --- a/blog/data/2013-01-09-hw-autoinstall.txt +++ b/blog/data/2013-01-09-hw-autoinstall.txt @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ Title: Lets make hardware dongles easier to use in Debian -Tags: english, debian +Tags: english, debian, isenkram Date: 2013-01-09 15:40

One thing that annoys me with Debian and Linux distributions in @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ I need to talk to it. When I plug in a Yubikey, it could propose the yubikey-personalization package. The information required to do this is available, but no-one have pulled all the pieces together.

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Many years ago, I proposed to +

Some years ago, I proposed to use the discover subsystem to implement this. The idea is fairly simple: @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ Debian Edu subversion repository. In the process, I updated the package to map the USB ids of LEGO Mindstorms and Yubikey devices to the relevant packages in Debian, and uploaded a new version 2.2013.01.09 to unstable. I also discovered that the current -discover +discover package in Debian no longer discovered any USB devices, because /proc/bus/usb/devices is no longer present. I ported it to use libusb as a fall back option to get it working. The fixed package