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+               <title>Isenkram updated with a lot more hardware-package mappings</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Isenkram_updated_with_a_lot_more_hardware_package_mappings.html</link>        
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+                <pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2016 11:55:00 +0100</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/isenkram&quot;&gt;The Isenkram
+system&lt;/a&gt; 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 new hardware about the packages to install to get it
+working, and even provide a button to click on to ask packagekit to
+install the packages.  Here is an command line example from my
+Thinkpad laptop:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+% isenkram-lookup  
+bluez
+cheese
+ethtool
+fprintd
+fprintd-demo
+gkrellm-thinkbat
+hdapsd
+libpam-fprintd
+pidgin-blinklight
+thinkfan
+tlp
+tp-smapi-dkms
+tp-smapi-source
+tpb
+%
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;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:
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+% /usr/sbin/isenkram-autoinstall-firmware -l
+info: did not find any firmware files requested by loaded kernel modules.  exiting
+%
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;These are the packages with hardware mappings at the moment.  The
+&lt;strong&gt;marked packages&lt;/strong&gt; are also announcing their hardware
+support using AppStream, for everyone to use:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;air-quality-sensor, alsa-firmware-loaders, argyll,
+&lt;strong&gt;array-info&lt;/strong&gt;, avarice, avrdude, b43-fwcutter,
+bit-babbler, bluez, bluez-firmware, &lt;strong&gt;brltty&lt;/strong&gt;,
+&lt;strong&gt;broadcom-sta-dkms&lt;/strong&gt;, calibre, cgminer, cheese, colord,
+&lt;strong&gt;colorhug-client&lt;/strong&gt;, dahdi-firmware-nonfree, dahdi-linux,
+dfu-util, dolphin-emu, ekeyd, ethtool, firmware-ipw2x00, fprintd,
+fprintd-demo, &lt;strong&gt;galileo&lt;/strong&gt;, 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,
+&lt;strong&gt;libnxt&lt;/strong&gt;, libpam-fprintd, &lt;strong&gt;lomoco&lt;/strong&gt;,
+madwimax, minidisc-utils, mkgmap, msi-keyboard, mtkbabel,
+&lt;strong&gt;nbc&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;nqc&lt;/strong&gt;, nut-hal-drivers, ola,
+open-vm-toolbox, open-vm-tools, openambit, pcgminer, pcmciautils,
+pcscd, pidgin-blinklight, printer-driver-splix,
+&lt;strong&gt;pymissile&lt;/strong&gt;, python-nxt, qlandkartegt,
+qlandkartegt-garmin, rosegarden, rt2x00-source, sispmctl,
+soapysdr-module-hackrf, solaar, squeak-plugins-scratch, sunxi-tools,
+&lt;strong&gt;t2n&lt;/strong&gt;, 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&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;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
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/AppStream/Guidelines&quot;&gt;add AppStream
+metadata according to the guidelines&lt;/a&gt; to provide the information
+for everyone.  In time, I hope to get rid of the isenkram specific
+hardware mapping and depend exclusively on AppStream.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Note, the AppStream metadata for broadcom-sta-dkms is matching too
+much hardware, and suggest that the package with with any ethernet
+card.  See &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/838735&quot;&gt;bug #838735&lt;/a&gt; for
+the details.  I hope the maintainer find time to address it soon.  In
+the mean time I provide an override in isenkram.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
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                <title>Oolite, a life in space as vagabond and mercenary - nice free software</title>
                <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Oolite__a_life_in_space_as_vagabond_and_mercenary___nice_free_software.html</link>