Hardware Database

[Philip Johnson]

Hello,
Is there a supported hardware database for Fedora Core? I haven't seen
one, and I believe it would be extremely useful for people who are
possibly migrating/moving/switching to Fedora from windows to know
which hardware will work out of the box. I don't currently have any
progamming skills (apart from website related programming, php for
example) so I would be very happy to set-up and maintain such a
database.

Let me know what you think, and tell me if I'm wrong if there is a database ;)

Thanks,
Philip Johnson (PlasticMonkey)

Philip Johnson wrote:

> Hello,
> Is there a supported hardware database for Fedora Core? I haven't seen
> one, and I believe it would be extremely useful for people who are
> possibly migrating/moving/switching to Fedora from windows to know
> which hardware will work out of the box.
>  
:-))

> I don't currently have any
> progamming skills (apart from website related programming, php for
> example) so I would be very happy to set-up and maintain such a
> database.
>
> Let me know what you think, and tell me if I'm wrong if there is a database ;)
>   
>  
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO/
http://www.linux-usb.org/
...


:-))
you can add to your list

HP Color Laserjet 2550L (color-laserjet-2500 out of the box via 
sercomm-3port-lpt-printserver, postscript)
KYOCERA FS 1000+ (out of the box via sercomm-3port-lpt-printserver, pxlmono)

Promise FastTrack TX2000 (out of the box as software-raid, 2 modules = 
sata-promise ?,ataraid ?)

WINaccord Xpen 20GB (out of the box, usb-storage)
Olympus camedia C-310Zoom (out of the box, usb-storage)

APC Powerstack 250 tty (apcupsd)
APC smart-UPS SUA1000i (apcupsd, usb, tty)
...



my litte bug/rfe - database :-)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=117048
hcl database is incomplete

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=117055
[RFE] a tool for searching a/o updating the hcl database would be great

-- 
shrek-m

[Philip Johnson]

shrek-m(a)gmx.de wrote:

>  :-))
>
>  http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO/
>  http://www.linux-usb.org/
>
>  :-))
>
>  my litte bug/rfe - database :-)
>
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=117048
>  hcl database is incomplete
>
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=117055
>  [RFE] a tool for searching a/o updating the hcl database would be great
>  
Heh :)

Granted, but what about a database that was specific to Fedora Core?  
Some pieces of hardware on there aren't too happy when it comes to 
fedora :D
For example one or two pieces of hardware on there that I've seen listed 
don't always work straight away... they need fiddling with first :) - so 
in my opinion it isn't brilliant :D

Point taken however :)

Cheers,
Philip Johnson (PlasticMonkey)

[Tom Callaway]

On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 23:02 +0000, Philip Johnson wrote:

>  Granted, but what about a database that was specific to Fedora Core? 
>
>  Some pieces of hardware on there aren't too happy when it comes to 
>  fedora :D 
Aurora uses a wiki, it seems well adapted to such a project.

~spot
---
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Red Hat Sales Engineer || Aurora Linux Project Leader

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[Colin Charles]

On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 17:50 -0600, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
>  > Granted, but what about a database that was specific to Fedora
>  Core?  
>  > Some pieces of hardware on there aren't too happy when it comes to 
>  > fedora :D
>  
>  Aurora uses a wiki, it seems well adapted to such a project. 
And there's nothing stopping folk from using:
	http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/

for their uses in starting a simple HCL database
-- 
Colin Charles, byte(a)aeon.com.my
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"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, 
then you win." -- Mohandas Gandhi