I don't think that a wiki page for HardwareSupport is that a good idea

[Darren Critchley]

Ben Edwards wrote:

>I totaly agree, problem is it is not possible in the wiki.  It needs a
>webapp building.  I think such a webapp whould be built and if it is
>it will be another good reason for people to use Ubuntu (i.e. it is
>easy to find which hw is supported).
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Actually we would probably want more than just a check box, ie that says 
this hardware is supported, it would make more sense to allow one to say 
how the hardware is supported or any extra tweaks that need to be done 
to make things work right. (even if it is only a link to the wiki 
although I don't think the wiki FAQ has target tags in it)

An example of this would be my Thinkpad, for it to shut down properly, I 
need to put a acpi=force into the grub configuration for it to work 
right. This should be listed under supported hardware. And also any 
querks should be listed as well such as third mouse button does other 
things instead of acting like a scroll mouse.

I agree this would be a good idea but needs to be expanded a little bit. 
It would also be nice to have hardware broken down into , PC, Laptop, 
modems, usb devices, network cards, wireless cards, etc. Each with a 
supported/not supported out of the box and then possibly comments on how 
to get it to work if possible, etc.

Seen as this a web application and not part of the ubuntu distribution, 
would it have to be written in python?

Darren