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15 <a href=
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22 <h3>Entries from January
2013.
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26 <a href=
"https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Welcome_to_the_world__Isenkram_.html">Welcome to the world, Isenkram!
</a>
33 <a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_prototype_ready_making_hardware_easier_to_use_in_Debian.html">asked
34 for testers
</a> for my prototype for making Debian better at handling
35 pluggable hardware devices, which I
36 <a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lets_make_hardware_dongles_easier_to_use_in_Debian.html">set
37 out to create
</a> earlier this month. Several valuable testers showed
38 up, and caused me to really want to to open up the development to more
39 people. But before I did this, I want to come up with a sensible name
40 for this project. Today I finally decided on a new name, and I have
41 renamed the project from hw-support-handler to this new name. In the
42 process, I moved the source to git and made it available as a
43 <a href=
"http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/isenkram.git">collab-maint
</a>
44 repository in Debian. The new name? It is
<strong>Isenkram
</strong>.
45 To fetch and build the latest version of the source, use
</p>
48 git clone http://anonscm.debian.org/git/collab-maint/isenkram.git
49 cd isenkram && git-buildpackage -us -uc
52 <p>I have not yet adjusted all files to use the new name yet. If you
53 want to hack on the source or improve the package, please go ahead.
54 But please talk to me first on IRC or via email before you do major
55 changes, to make sure we do not step on each others toes. :)
</p>
57 <p>If you wonder what 'isenkram' is, it is a Norwegian word for iron
58 stuff, typically meaning tools, nails, screws, etc. Typical hardware
59 stuff, in other words. I've been told it is the Norwegian variant of
60 the German word eisenkram, for those that are familiar with that
63 <p><strong>Update
2013-
01-
26</strong>: Added -us -us to build
64 instructions, to avoid confusing people with an error from the signing
67 <p><strong>Update
2013-
01-
27</strong>: Switch to HTTP URL for the git
68 clone argument to avoid the need for authentication.
</p>
74 Tags:
<a href=
"https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian
</a>,
<a href=
"https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english
</a>,
<a href=
"https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/isenkram">isenkram
</a>.
79 <div class=
"padding"></div>
83 <a href=
"https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_prototype_ready_making_hardware_easier_to_use_in_Debian.html">First prototype ready making hardware easier to use in Debian
</a>
89 <p>Early this month I set out to try to
90 <a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lets_make_hardware_dongles_easier_to_use_in_Debian.html">improve
91 the Debian support for pluggable hardware devices
</a>. Now my
92 prototype is working, and it is ready for a larger audience. To test
94 <a href=
"http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debian-edu/trunk/src/hw-support-handler/">source
95 from the Debian Edu subversion repository
</a>, build and install the
96 package. You might have to log out and in again activate the
99 <p>The design is simple:
</p>
103 <li>Add desktop entry in /usr/share/autostart/ causing a program
104 hw-support-handlerd to start when the user log in.
</li>
106 <li>This program listen for kernel events about new hardware (directly
107 from the kernel like udev does), not using HAL dbus events as I
110 <li>When new hardware is inserted, look up the hardware modalias in
111 the APT database, a database
112 <a href=
"http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debian-edu/trunk/src/hw-support-handler/modaliases?view=markup">available
113 via HTTP
</a> and a database available as part of the package.
</li>
115 <li>If a package is mapped to the hardware in question, the package
116 isn't installed yet and this is the first time the hardware was
117 plugged in, show a desktop notification suggesting to install the
118 package or packages.
</li>
120 <li>If the user click on the 'install package now' button, ask
121 aptdaemon via the PackageKit API to install the requrired package.
</li>
123 <li>aptdaemon ask for root password or sudo password, and install the
124 package while showing progress information in a window.
</li>
128 <p>I still need to come up with a better name for the system. Here
129 are some screen shots showing the prototype in action. First the
130 notification, then the password request, and finally the request to
131 approve all the dependencies. Sorry for the Norwegian Bokmål GUI.
</p>
133 <p><img src=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-01-21-hw-support-1-notification.png">
134 <br><img src=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-01-21-hw-support-2-password.png">
135 <br><img src=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-01-21-hw-support-3-dependencies.png">
136 <br><img src=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-01-21-hw-support-4-installing.png">
137 <br><img src=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-01-21-hw-support-5-installing-details.png" width=
"70%"></p>
139 <p>The prototype still need to be improved with longer timeouts, but
140 is already useful. The database of hardware to package mappings also
141 need more work. It is currently compatible with the Ubuntu way of
142 storing such information in the package control file, but could be
143 changed to use other formats instead or in addition to the current
144 method. I've dropped the use of discover for this mapping, as the
145 modalias approach is more flexible and easier to use on Linux as long
146 as the Linux kernel expose its modalias strings directly.
</p>
148 <p><strong>Update
2013-
01-
21 16:
50</strong>: Due to popular demand,
149 here is the command required to check out and build the source: Use
151 svn://svn.debian.org/debian-edu/trunk/src/hw-support-handler/; cd
152 hw-support-handler; debuild
</tt>'. If you lack debuild, install the
153 devscripts package.
</p>
155 <p><strong>Update
2013-
01-
23 12:
00</strong>: The project is now
156 renamed to Isenkram and the source moved from the Debian Edu
157 subversion repository to a Debian collab-maint git repository. See
158 <a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Welcome_to_the_world__Isenkram_.html">build
159 instructions
</a> for details.
</p>
165 Tags:
<a href=
"https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian
</a>,
<a href=
"https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english
</a>,
<a href=
"https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/isenkram">isenkram
</a>.
170 <div class=
"padding"></div>
174 <a href=
"https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Thank_you_Thinkpad_X41__for_your_long_and_trustworthy_service.html">Thank you Thinkpad X41, for your long and trustworthy service
</a>
180 <p>This Christmas my trusty old laptop died. It died quietly and
181 suddenly in bed. With a quiet whimper, it went completely quiet and
182 black. The power button was no longer able to turn it on. It was a
183 IBM Thinkpad X41, and the best laptop I ever had. Better than both
184 Thinkpads X30, X31, X40, X60, X61 and X61S. Far better than the
185 Compaq I had before that. Now I need to find a replacement. To keep
186 going during Christmas, I moved the one year old SSD disk to my old
187 X40 where it fitted (only one I had left that could use it), but it is
188 not a durable solution.
190 <p>My laptop needs are fairly modest. This is my wishlist from when I
191 got a new one more than
10 years ago. It still holds true.:)
</p>
195 <li>Lightweight (around
1 kg) and small volume (preferably smaller
197 <li>Robust, it will be in my backpack every day.
</li>
198 <li>Three button mouse and a mouse pin instead of touch pad.
</li>
199 <li>Long battery life time. Preferable a week.
</li>
200 <li>Internal WIFI network card.
</li>
201 <li>Internal Twisted Pair network card.
</li>
202 <li>Some USB slots (
2-
3 is plenty)
</li>
203 <li>Good keyboard - similar to the Thinkpad.
</li>
204 <li>Video resolution at least
1024x768, with size around
12" (A4 paper
206 <li>Hardware supported by Debian Stable, ie the default kernel and
208 <li>Quiet, preferably fan free (or at least not using the fan most of
213 <p>You will notice that there are no RAM and CPU requirements in the
214 list. The reason is simply that the specifications on laptops the
215 last
10-
15 years have been sufficient for my needs, and I have to look
216 at other features to choose my laptop. But are there still made as
217 robust laptops as my X41? The Thinkpad X60/X61 proved to be less
218 robust, and Thinkpads seem to be heading in the wrong direction since
219 Lenovo took over. But I've been told that X220 and X1 Carbon might
222 <p>Perhaps I should rethink my needs, and look for a pad with an
223 external keyboard? I'll have to check the
224 <a href=
"http://www.linux-laptop.net/">Linux Laptops site
</a> for
225 well-supported laptops, or perhaps just buy one preinstalled from one
226 of the vendors listed on the
<a href=
"http://linuxpreloaded.com/">Linux
227 Pre-loaded site
</a>.
</p>
233 Tags:
<a href=
"https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian
</a>,
<a href=
"https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english
</a>.
238 <div class=
"padding"></div>
242 <a href=
"https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_find_a_browser_plugin_supporting_a_given_MIME_type.html">How to find a browser plugin supporting a given MIME type
</a>
248 <p>Some times I try to figure out which Iceweasel browser plugin to
249 install to get support for a given MIME type. Thanks to
250 <a href=
"https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MozillaTeam/Plugins">specifications
251 done by Ubuntu
</a> and Mozilla, it is possible to do this in Debian.
252 Unfortunately, not very many packages provide the needed meta
253 information, Anyway, here is a small script to look up all browser
254 plugin packages announcing ther MIME support using this specification:
</p>
260 def pkgs_handling_mimetype(mimetype):
265 version = pkg.candidate
267 version = pkg.installed
270 record = version.record
271 if not record.has_key('Npp-MimeType'):
273 mime_types = record['Npp-MimeType'].split(',')
275 t = t.rstrip().strip()
277 thepkgs.append(pkg.name)
279 mimetype = "audio/ogg"
280 if
1 < len(sys.argv):
281 mimetype = sys.argv[
1]
282 print "Browser plugin packages supporting %s:" % mimetype
283 for pkg in pkgs_handling_mimetype(mimetype):
287 <p>It can be used like this to look up a given MIME type:
</p>
290 % ./apt-find-browserplug-for-mimetype
291 Browser plugin packages supporting audio/ogg:
293 % ./apt-find-browserplug-for-mimetype application/x-shockwave-flash
294 Browser plugin packages supporting application/x-shockwave-flash:
299 <p>In Ubuntu this mechanism is combined with support in the browser
300 itself to query for plugins and propose to install the needed
301 packages. It would be great if Debian supported such feature too. Is
302 anyone working on adding it?
</p>
304 <p><strong>Update
2013-
01-
18 14:
20</strong>: The Debian BTS
305 request for icweasel support for this feature is
306 <a href=
"http://bugs.debian.org/484010">#
484010</a> from
2008 (and
307 <a href=
"http://bugs.debian.org/698426">#
698426</a> from today). Lack
308 of manpower and wish for a different design is the reason thus feature
309 is not yet in iceweasel from Debian.
</p>
315 Tags:
<a href=
"https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian
</a>,
<a href=
"https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english
</a>.
320 <div class=
"padding"></div>
324 <a href=
"https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_is_the_most_supported_MIME_type_in_Debian_.html">What is the most supported MIME type in Debian?
</a>
330 <p>The
<a href=
"http://wiki.debian.org/AppStreamDebianProposal">DEP-
11
331 proposal to add AppStream information to the Debian archive
</a>, is a
332 proposal to make it possible for a Desktop application to propose to
333 the user some package to install to gain support for a given MIME
334 type, font, library etc. that is currently missing. With such
335 mechanism in place, it would be possible for the desktop to
336 automatically propose and install leocad if some LDraw file is
337 downloaded by the browser.
</p>
339 <p>To get some idea about the current content of the archive, I decided
340 to write a simple program to extract all .desktop files from the
341 Debian archive and look up the claimed MIME support there. The result
343 <a href=
"http://ftp.skolelinux.org/pub/AppStreamTest">Skolelinux FTP
344 site
</a>. Using the collected information, it become possible to
345 answer the question in the title. Here are the
20 most supported MIME
346 types in Debian stable (Squeeze), testing (Wheezy) and unstable (Sid).
347 The complete list is available from the link above.
</p>
349 <p><strong>Debian Stable:
</strong></p>
353 ----- -----------------------
376 <p><strong>Debian Testing:
</strong></p>
380 ----- -----------------------
403 <p><strong>Debian Unstable:
</strong></p>
407 ----- -----------------------
430 <p>I am told that PackageKit can provide an API to access the kind of
431 information mentioned in DEP-
11. I have not yet had time to look at
432 it, but hope the PackageKit people in Debian are on top of these
435 <p><strong>Update
2013-
01-
16 13:
35</strong>: Updated numbers after
436 discovering a typo in my script.
</p>
442 Tags:
<a href=
"https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian
</a>,
<a href=
"https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english
</a>.
447 <div class=
"padding"></div>
451 <a href=
"https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Using_modalias_info_to_find_packages_handling_my_hardware.html">Using modalias info to find packages handling my hardware
</a>
457 <p>Yesterday, I wrote about the
458 <a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Modalias_strings___a_practical_way_to_map__stuff__to_hardware.html">modalias
459 values provided by the Linux kernel
</a> following my hope for
460 <a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lets_make_hardware_dongles_easier_to_use_in_Debian.html">better
461 dongle support in Debian
</a>. Using this knowledge, I have tested how
462 modalias values attached to package names can be used to map packages
463 to hardware. This allow the system to look up and suggest relevant
464 packages when I plug in some new hardware into my machine, and replace
465 discover and discover-data as the database used to map hardware to
468 <p>I create a modaliases file with entries like the following,
469 containing package name, kernel module name (if relevant, otherwise
470 the package name) and globs matching the relevant hardware
474 Package: package-name
475 <br>Modaliases: module(modaliasglob, modaliasglob, modaliasglob)
</p>
478 <p>It is fairly trivial to write code to find the relevant packages
479 for a given modalias value using this file.
</p>
481 <p>An entry like this would suggest the video and picture application
482 cheese for many USB web cameras (interface bus class
0E01):
</p>
486 <br>Modaliases: cheese(usb:v*p*d*dc*dsc*dp*ic0Eisc01ip*)
</p>
489 <p>An entry like this would suggest the pcmciautils package when a
490 CardBus bridge (bus class
0607) PCI device is present:
</p>
494 <br>Modaliases: pcmciautils(pci:v*d*sv*sd*bc06sc07i*)
497 <p>An entry like this would suggest the package colorhug-client when
498 plugging in a ColorHug with USB IDs
04D8:F8DA:
</p>
501 Package: colorhug-client
502 <br>Modaliases: colorhug-client(usb:v04D8pF8DAd*)
</p>
505 <p>I believe the format is compatible with the format of the Packages
506 file in the Debian archive. Ubuntu already uses their Packages file
507 to store their mappings from packages to hardware.
</p>
509 <p>By adding a XB-Modaliases: header in debian/control, any .deb can
510 announce the hardware it support in a way my prototype understand.
511 This allow those publishing packages in an APT source outside the
512 Debian archive as well as those backporting packages to make sure the
513 hardware mapping are included in the package meta information. I've
514 tested such header in the pymissile package, and its modalias mapping
515 is working as it should with my prototype. It even made it to Ubuntu
518 <p>To test if it was possible to look up supported hardware using only
519 the shell tools available in the Debian installer, I wrote a shell
520 implementation of the lookup code. The idea is to create files for
521 each modalias and let the shell do the matching. Please check out and
523 <a href=
"http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debian-edu/trunk/src/hw-support-handler/hw-support-lookup?view=co">hw-support-lookup
</a>
524 shell script. It run without any extra dependencies and fetch the
525 hardware mappings from the Debian archive and the subversion
526 repository where I currently work on my prototype.
</p>
528 <p>When I use it on a machine with a yubikey inserted, it suggest to
529 install yubikey-personalization:
</p>
532 % ./hw-support-lookup
533 <br>yubikey-personalization
537 <p>When I run it on my Thinkpad X40 with a PCMCIA/CardBus slot, it
538 propose to install the pcmciautils package:
</p>
541 % ./hw-support-lookup
546 <p>If you know of any hardware-package mapping that should be added to
547 <a href=
"http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debian-edu/trunk/src/hw-support-handler/modaliases?view=co">my
548 database
</a>, please tell me about it.
</p>
550 <p>It could be possible to generate several of the mappings between
551 packages and hardware. One source would be to look at packages with
552 kernel modules, ie packages with *.ko files in /lib/modules/, and
553 extract their modalias information. Another would be to look at
554 packages with udev rules, ie packages with files in
555 /lib/udev/rules.d/, and extract their vendor/model information to
556 generate a modalias matching rule. I have not tested any of these to
559 <p>If you want to help implementing a system to let us propose what
560 packages to install when new hardware is plugged into a Debian
561 machine, please send me an email or talk to me on
562 <a href=
"irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-devel">#debian-devel
</a>.
</p>
568 Tags:
<a href=
"https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian
</a>,
<a href=
"https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english
</a>,
<a href=
"https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/isenkram">isenkram
</a>.
573 <div class=
"padding"></div>
577 <a href=
"https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Modalias_strings___a_practical_way_to_map__stuff__to_hardware.html">Modalias strings - a practical way to map "stuff" to hardware
</a>
583 <p>While looking into how to look up Debian packages based on hardware
584 information, to find the packages that support a given piece of
585 hardware, I refreshed my memory regarding modalias values, and decided
586 to document the details. Here are my findings so far, also available
588 <a href=
"http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debian-edu/trunk/src/hw-support-handler/">the
589 Debian Edu subversion repository
</a>:
591 <p><strong>Modalias decoded
</strong></p>
593 <p>This document try to explain what the different types of modalias
594 values stands for. It is in part based on information from
595 <URL:
<a href=
"https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Modalias">https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Modalias
</a> >,
596 <URL:
<a href=
"http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/26132/how-to-assign-usb-driver-to-device">http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/
26132/how-to-assign-usb-driver-to-device
</a> >,
597 <URL:
<a href=
"http://code.metager.de/source/history/linux/stable/scripts/mod/file2alias.c">http://code.metager.de/source/history/linux/stable/scripts/mod/file2alias.c
</a> > and
598 <URL:
<a href=
"http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/dmidecode/dmidecode.c?root=dmidecode&view=markup">http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/dmidecode/dmidecode.c?root=dmidecode&view=markup
</a> >.
600 <p>The modalias entries for a given Linux machine can be found using
601 this shell script:
</p>
604 find /sys -name modalias -print0 | xargs -
0 cat | sort -u
607 <p>The supported modalias globs for a given kernel module can be found
611 % /sbin/modinfo psmouse | grep alias:
612 alias: serio:ty05pr*id*ex*
613 alias: serio:ty01pr*id*ex*
617 <p><strong>PCI subtype
</strong></p>
619 <p>A typical PCI entry can look like this. This is an Intel Host
620 Bridge memory controller:
</p>
623 pci:v00008086d00002770sv00001028sd000001ADbc06sc00i00
626 <p>This represent these values:
</p>
631 sv
00001028 (subvendor)
632 sd
000001AD (subdevice)
638 <p>The vendor/device values are the same values outputted from 'lspci
639 -n' as
8086:
2770. The bus class/subclass is also shown by lspci as
640 0600. The
0600 class is a host bridge. Other useful bus values are
641 0300 (VGA compatible card) and
0200 (Ethernet controller).
</p>
643 <p>Not sure how to figure out the interface value, nor what it
646 <p><strong>USB subtype
</strong></p>
648 <p>Some typical USB entries can look like this. This is an internal
649 USB hub in a laptop:
</p>
652 usb:v1D6Bp0001d0206dc09dsc00dp00ic09isc00ip00
655 <p>Here is the values included in this alias:
</p>
658 v
1D6B (device vendor)
659 p
0001 (device product)
662 dsc
00 (device subclass)
663 dp
00 (device protocol)
664 ic
09 (interface class)
665 isc
00 (interface subclass)
666 ip
00 (interface protocol)
669 <p>The
0900 device class/subclass means hub. Some times the relevant
670 class is in the interface class section. For a simple USB web camera,
671 these alias entries show up:
</p>
674 usb:v0AC8p3420d5000dcEFdsc02dp01ic01isc01ip00
675 <br>usb:v0AC8p3420d5000dcEFdsc02dp01ic01isc02ip00
676 <br>usb:v0AC8p3420d5000dcEFdsc02dp01ic0Eisc01ip00
677 <br>usb:v0AC8p3420d5000dcEFdsc02dp01ic0Eisc02ip00
680 <p>Interface class
0E01 is video control,
0E02 is video streaming (aka
681 camera),
0101 is audio control device and
0102 is audio streaming (aka
682 microphone). Thus this is a camera with microphone included.
</p>
684 <p><strong>ACPI subtype
</strong></p>
686 <p>The ACPI type is used for several non-PCI/USB stuff. This is an IR
687 receiver in a Thinkpad X40:
</p>
690 acpi:IBM0071:PNP0511:
693 <p>The values between the colons are IDs.
</p>
695 <p><strong>DMI subtype
</strong></p>
697 <p>The DMI table contain lots of information about the computer case
698 and model. This is an entry for a IBM Thinkpad X40, fetched from
699 /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/modalias:
</p>
702 dmi:bvnIBM:bvr1UETB6WW(
1.66):bd06/
15/
2005:svnIBM:pn2371H4G:pvrThinkPadX40:rvnIBM:rn2371H4G:rvrNotAvailable:cvnIBM:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
705 <p>The values present are
</p>
708 bvn IBM (BIOS vendor)
709 bvr
1UETB
6WW(
1.66) (BIOS version)
710 bd
06/
15/
2005 (BIOS date)
711 svn IBM (system vendor)
712 pn
2371H4G (product name)
713 pvr ThinkPadX40 (product version)
714 rvn IBM (board vendor)
715 rn
2371H4G (board name)
716 rvr NotAvailable (board version)
717 cvn IBM (chassis vendor)
719 cvr NotAvailable (chassis version)
722 <p>The chassis type
10 is Notebook. Other interesting values can be
723 found in the dmidecode source:
</p>
727 4 Low Profile Desktop
740 17 Main Server Chassis
743 20 Bus Expansion Chassis
744 21 Peripheral Chassis
746 23 Rack Mount Chassis
755 <p>The chassis type values are not always accurately set in the DMI
756 table. For example my home server is a tower, but the DMI modalias
757 claim it is a desktop.
</p>
759 <p><strong>SerIO subtype
</strong></p>
761 <p>This type is used for PS/
2 mouse plugs. One example is from my
765 serio:ty01pr00id00ex00
768 <p>The values present are
</p>
777 <p>This type is supported by the psmouse driver. I am not sure what
778 the valid values are.
</p>
780 <p><strong>Other subtypes
</strong></p>
782 <p>There are heaps of other modalias subtypes according to
783 file2alias.c. There is the rest of the list from that source: amba,
784 ap, bcma, ccw, css, eisa, hid, i2c, ieee1394, input, ipack, isapnp,
785 mdio, of, parisc, pcmcia, platform, scsi, sdio, spi, ssb, vio, virtio,
786 vmbus, x86cpu and zorro. I did not spend time documenting all of
787 these, as they do not seem relevant for my intended use with mapping
788 hardware to packages when new stuff is inserted during run time.
</p>
790 <p><strong>Looking up kernel modules using modalias values
</strong></p>
792 <p>To check which kernel modules provide support for a given modalias,
793 one can use the following shell script:
</p>
796 for id in $(find /sys -name modalias -print0 | xargs -
0 cat | sort -u); do \
798 /sbin/modprobe --show-depends "$id"|sed 's/^/ /' ; \
802 <p>The output can look like this (only the first few entries as the
803 list is very long on my test machine):
</p>
807 insmod /lib/modules/
2.6.32-
5-
686/kernel/drivers/acpi/ac.ko
809 FATAL: Module acpi:device: not found.
811 insmod /lib/modules/
2.6.32-
5-
686/kernel/drivers/char/nvram.ko
812 insmod /lib/modules/
2.6.32-
5-
686/kernel/drivers/leds/led-class.ko
813 insmod /lib/modules/
2.6.32-
5-
686/kernel/net/rfkill/rfkill.ko
814 insmod /lib/modules/
2.6.32-
5-
686/kernel/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.ko
815 acpi:IBM0071:PNP0511:
816 insmod /lib/modules/
2.6.32-
5-
686/kernel/lib/crc-ccitt.ko
817 insmod /lib/modules/
2.6.32-
5-
686/kernel/net/irda/irda.ko
818 insmod /lib/modules/
2.6.32-
5-
686/kernel/drivers/net/irda/nsc-ircc.ko
822 <p>If you want to help implementing a system to let us propose what
823 packages to install when new hardware is plugged into a Debian
824 machine, please send me an email or talk to me on
825 <a href=
"irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-devel">#debian-devel
</a>.
</p>
827 <p><strong>Update
2013-
01-
15:
</strong> Rewrite "cat $(find ...)" to
828 "find ... -print0 | xargs -
0 cat" to make sure it handle directories
829 in /sys/ with space in them.
</p>
835 Tags:
<a href=
"https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian
</a>,
<a href=
"https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english
</a>,
<a href=
"https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/isenkram">isenkram
</a>.
840 <div class=
"padding"></div>
844 <a href=
"https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Moved_the_pymissile_Debian_packaging_to_collab_maint.html">Moved the pymissile Debian packaging to collab-maint
</a>
850 <p>As part of my investigation on how to improve the support in Debian
851 for hardware dongles, I dug up my old Mark and Spencer USB Rocket
852 Launcher and updated the Debian package
853 <a href=
"http://packages.qa.debian.org/pymissile">pymissile
</a> to make
854 sure udev will fix the device permissions when it is plugged in. I
855 also added a "Modaliases" header to test it in the Debian archive and
856 hopefully make the package be proposed by jockey in Ubuntu when a user
857 plug in his rocket launcher. In the process I moved the source to a
858 git repository under collab-maint, to make it easier for any DD to
859 contribute.
<a href=
"http://code.google.com/p/pymissile/">Upstream
</a>
860 is not very active, but the software still work for me even after five
861 years of relative silence. The new git repository is not listed in
862 the uploaded package yet, because I want to test the other changes a
863 bit more before I upload the new version. If you want to check out
864 the new version with a .desktop file included, visit the
865 <a href=
"http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/pymissile.git">gitweb
866 view
</a> or use "
<tt>git clone
867 git://anonscm.debian.org/collab-maint/pymissile.git
</tt>".</p>
873 Tags: <a href="https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian
">debian</a>, <a href="https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english
">english</a>, <a href="https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/isenkram
">isenkram</a>, <a href="https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/robot
">robot</a>.
878 <div class="padding
"></div>
882 <a href="https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lets_make_hardware_dongles_easier_to_use_in_Debian.html
">Lets make hardware dongles easier to use in Debian</a>
888 <p>One thing that annoys me with Debian and Linux distributions in
889 general, is that there is a great package management system with the
890 ability to automatically install software packages by downloading them
891 from the distribution mirrors, but no way to get it to automatically
892 install the packages I need to use the hardware I plug into my
893 machine. Even if the package to use it is easily available from the
894 Linux distribution. When I plug in a LEGO Mindstorms NXT, it could
895 suggest to automatically install the python-nxt, nbc and t2n packages
896 I need to talk to it. When I plug in a Yubikey, it could propose the
897 yubikey-personalization package. The information required to do this
898 is available, but no-one have pulled all the pieces together.</p>
900 <p>Some years ago, I proposed to
901 <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/
2010/
05/msg01206.html
">use
902 the discover subsystem to implement this</a>. The idea is fairly
907 <li>Add a desktop entry in /usr/share/autostart/ pointing to a program
908 starting when a user log in.</li>
910 <li>Set this program up to listen for kernel events emitted when new
911 hardware is inserted into the computer.</li>
913 <li>When new hardware is inserted, look up the hardware ID in a
914 database mapping to packages, and take note of any non-installed
917 <li>Show a message to the user proposing to install the discovered
918 package, and make it easy to install it.</li>
922 <p>I am not sure what the best way to implement this is, but my
923 initial idea was to use dbus events to discover new hardware, the
924 discover database to find packages and
925 <a href="http://www.packagekit.org/
">PackageKit</a> to install
928 <p>Yesterday, I found time to try to implement this idea, and the
929 draft package is now checked into
930 <a href="http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debian-edu/trunk/src/hw-support-handler/
">the
931 Debian Edu subversion repository</a>. In the process, I updated the
932 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/d/discover-data.html
">discover-data</a>
933 package to map the USB ids of LEGO Mindstorms and Yubikey devices to
934 the relevant packages in Debian, and uploaded a new version
935 2.2013.01.09 to unstable. I also discovered that the current
936 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/d/discover.html
">discover</a>
937 package in Debian no longer discovered any USB devices, because
938 /proc/bus/usb/devices is no longer present. I ported it to use
939 libusb as a fall back option to get it working. The fixed package
940 version 2.1.2-6 is now in experimental (didn't upload it to unstable
941 because of the freeze).</p>
943 <p>With this prototype in place, I can insert my Yubikey, and get this
944 desktop notification to show up (only once, the first time it is
947 <p align="center
"><img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/
2013-
01-
09-hw-autoinstall.png
"></p>
949 <p>For this prototype to be really useful, some way to automatically
950 install the proposed packages by pressing the "Please install
951 program(s)" button should to be implemented.
</p>
953 <p>If this idea seem useful to you, and you want to help make it
954 happen, please help me update the discover-data database with mappings
955 from hardware to Debian packages. Check if 'discover-pkginstall -l'
956 list the package you would like to have installed when a given
957 hardware device is inserted into your computer, and report bugs using
958 reportbug if it isn't. Or, if you know of a better way to provide
959 such mapping, please let me know.
</p>
961 <p>This prototype need more work, and there are several questions that
962 should be considered before it is ready for production use. Is dbus
963 the correct way to detect new hardware? At the moment I look for HAL
964 dbus events on the system bus, because that is the events I could see
965 on my Debian Squeeze KDE desktop. Are there better events to use?
966 How should the user be notified? Is the desktop notification
967 mechanism the best option, or should the background daemon raise a
968 popup instead? How should packages be installed? When should they
969 not be installed?
</p>
971 <p>If you want to help getting such feature implemented in Debian,
972 please send me an email. :)
</p>
978 Tags:
<a href=
"https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian
</a>,
<a href=
"https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english
</a>,
<a href=
"https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/isenkram">isenkram
</a>.
983 <div class=
"padding"></div>
987 <a href=
"https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_IRC_channel_for_LEGO_designers_using_Debian.html">New IRC channel for LEGO designers using Debian
</a>
993 <p>During Christmas, I have worked a bit on the Debian support for
994 <a href=
"http://mindstorms.lego.com/en-us/Default.aspx">LEGO Mindstorm
995 NXT
</a>. My son and I have played a bit with my NXT set, and I
996 discovered I had to build all the tools myself because none were
997 already in Debian Squeeze. If Debian support for LEGO is something
998 you care about, please join me on the IRC channel
999 <a href=
"irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-lego">#debian-lego
</a> (server
1000 irc.debian.org). There is a lot that could be done to improve the
1001 Debian support for LEGO designers. For example both CAD software
1002 and Mindstorm compilers are missing. :)
</p>
1004 <p>Update
2012-
01-
03: A
1005 <a href=
"http://wiki.debian.org/LegoDesigners">project page
</a>
1006 including links to Lego related packages is now available.
</p>
1012 Tags:
<a href=
"https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian
</a>,
<a href=
"https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english
</a>,
<a href=
"https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/lego">lego
</a>,
<a href=
"https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/robot">robot
</a>.
1017 <div class=
"padding"></div>
1021 <a href=
"https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lenker_for_2013_01_01.html">Lenker for
2013-
01-
01</a>
1027 <p>Her er noen lenker til tekster jeg har satt pris på å lese den
1033 <a href=
"http://www.idg.no/computerworld/article262047.ece">Myter og
1034 FUD om fri programvare
</a> av min venn Christer Gundersen som
1035 kommenterer noen av de påstandene som er spredt via Computerworld
1036 Norge de siste månedene.
</li>
1038 <li>BankID er et opplegg der utsteder (dvs. banken eller dens
1039 leverandør) sitter på alt som trengs for å bruke BankID, men har
1040 lovet å ikke bruke den unntatt på oppdrag fra deg. Det er greit nok
1041 for banktjenester, der banken allerede har full kontroll over
1042 resultatet, men problematisk når det gjelder tilgang til
1043 helseopplysninger og avtaleinngåelse med andre enn banken. Jeg
1044 håper protestene brer om seg.
1048 <li>2012-
12-
11 <a href=
"http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/debatt/BankID-blottlegger-helseopplysninger-7067148.html">BankID
1049 blottlegger helseopplysninger
</a></li>
1051 <li>2012-
12-
07 <a href=
"http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/norge/1.9695027">-
1052 Helseopplysningene ikke sikre med Bank-ID
</a></li>
1055 <a href=
"https://www.bankid.no/Presse-og-nyheter/Nyhetsarkiv/2012/Papeker-alvorlige-men-kjente-utfordringer/">PÃ¥peker
1056 alvorlige, men kjente utfordringer
</a> er den offisielle
1057 holdningen til de som lager BankID.
</li>
1060 <a href=
"http://www.tnp.no/norway/panorama/3419-ntnu-researcher-warns-against-security-of-bank-id-password">NTNU
1061 Researcher Warns against Security of Bank ID Password
</a>
1065 <li>2012-
12-
11 <a href=
"http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/Norske-elever-er-darligst-i-Europa-pa-algebra-7066752.html">Norske elever er dårligst i Europa på algebra
</a>
1068 <a href=
"http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/debatt/Realfagsdodaren-7067173.html">Realfagsdødaren
</a>
1071 <a href=
"http://www.bt.no/nyheter/innenriks/112/--Forventningene-er-for-hoye-2816450.html">-
1072 Noen må bli skuffet
</a> - Politiet i Bergen forteller hvor lavt de
1073 prioriterer hverdagskriminalitet.
</li>
1076 <a href=
"http://e24.no/jobb/kripos-ansatt-doemt-for-snoking-for-venn/20208585">
1077 Kripos-ansatt dømt for snoking for venn
</A> - viser hvor svak
1078 reaksjonen blir når politiet misbruker innsamlet informasjon. En
1079 forvarsel på konsekvensene av nasjonal brev- og besøkskontroll -
1080 ofte kalt Datalagringsdirektivet.
</li>
1083 <a href=
"http://www.dagbladet.no/2012/12/14/kultur/debatt/kronikk/jul/ensomhet/24838541/">Ã…
1084 smøre en forskjell
</a> - om ensomhet og jul.
</li>
1087 <a href=
"http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kronikker/n-krise-av-gangen_-takk-7072452.html">Én
1088 krise av gangen, takk!
</a>
1092 <a href=
"http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/NAV-Et-mangehodet-monster--7072165.html">NAV:
1093 Et mangehodet monster
</a></li>
1096 <a href=
"http://www.dagbladet.no/2011/01/12/kultur/debatt/kronikk/personvern/15027203/">Pasienter
1097 uten vern
</a> - forteller litt om hvordan Norsk Pasientregister og
1098 andre helseregister raderer bort pasienters privatsfære.
</li>
1102 <a href=
"http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/debatt/Hvorfor-er-barnefamilier-fattige-7073951.html">Hvorfor
1103 er barnefamilier fattige?
</a></li>
1106 <a href=
"http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/spaltister/Den-skjulte-minoriteten--konservative-kristne-i-Norge-7075518.html">Den
1107 skjulte minoriteten – konservative kristne i Norge
</a> - kronikk av
1108 Bjørn Stærk fra aftenposten
</li>
1111 <a href=
"http://deltemeninger.no/-/bulletin/show/303429_folkebiblioteket-2-0?ref=checkpoint">Folkebiblioteket
1112 2.0</a> - Min venn Sturle om opphavsrett og Internett, i debatt med
1117 <p>Og et godt nytt år til dere alle!
</p>
1123 Tags:
<a href=
"https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/bankid">bankid
</a>,
<a href=
"https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/lenker">lenker
</a>,
<a href=
"https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk
</a>,
<a href=
"https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett
</a>,
<a href=
"https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern
</a>.
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1)
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11)
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3)
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17)
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2)
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