Windows-based driver support checker for Ubuntu?

[Scott Robinson]

On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 12:10:32AM -0400, xt knight wrote:
> The IdeaPool had an idea about a "checker" that would notify the user
> of Linux's support of his devices.  (
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IdeaPool#head-840a946630b2112c0d2ca651b11d8a52171564fe)
> 
> I decided to attempt to implement this.  How it works right now is
> that a modules.pcimap file is provided from /lib/modules/`uname -r`/
> and a few WinNT APIs are used to get a list of PCI IDs from the host
> Windows PC.  Then, the computer's PCI IDs are checked against that
> pcimap file for Linux support.
> 

Before you get too far along, I recommend checking out:

  http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/

That's Debian's hardware compatibility database and it does exactly what
you're describing. The full source code is available:

  http://kmuto.jp/svn/hcl/trunk/

Also, if there was a simple Windows and Mac OS X rich client that could
do this all automatically, I think there would be definite value there.

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Scott Robinson | http://quadhome.com/

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