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

[Kevin Mulligan]

I disagree. I think the Wiki does a fine job listing the hardware in 
this case. I consider myself a normal user, very newb, don't know 
commands in Linux, use Windows, etc. To figure out the Wiki all you have 
to do is look up how to do it (Google or in the HelpContents), or look 
at the previous example of someone else doing it. I found it very easy 
to figure out in one or two tries. Yes, another system would be nice, 
but this one works pretty well too.

--Kevin

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).
>
>I would offer to build in but I think a python solution would be
>wanted - I would do it in PHP.
>
>Ben
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>On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 16:13:35 +0200, Kristof Vansant <de_lupus at pandora.be> wrote:
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>>I was adding my hardware and I found it rather difficult to add
>>something. I mean for a normal user :)
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>>I think it would be better to have a page where you have comboboxes with
>>all the vendors (if your vendor is not in the list you can add it) the
>>chipset, the driver etc.
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>>when more hardware gets added the list gets to long, so maybe a search
>>engine is needed.
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>>maybe a non-editable wiki page can be rendered from the little database
>>that gets created?
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>>plus it should be possible to link a bugzilla and a ubuntu version to
>>the hardware.
>>
>>http://wiki.ubuntulinux.org/HardwareSupport 
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