[elrepo] Package for detecting hardware?

Ljubomir Ljubojevic centos at plnet.rs
Tue Jun 25 07:24:47 EDT 2013


Hi.

I was wondering if you guys could create a package/script that would 
scan the hardware and compare DeviceID's and offer command to install 
them, like "to install those drivers run this: 'yum install kmod-***' "

I see nvidia-detect works in similar way. It would greatly help for 
cases where there is no internet but there is a local copy of packages 
(LiveDVD's, repo from file://), not to mention making life easier and 
CentOS more attractive for newbies.

If there is a hardware that is not recognized, it could show DeviceID.

On top of all of that, package might recognize divers that exist in 
kernel-lt and kernel-ml, with suggestion that that might solve their 
problem (with a warning notice about not being offical CentOS kernel or 
what ever).

Is there a chance for something like that?

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Ljubomir Ljubojevic
(Love is in the Air)
PL Computers
Serbia, Europe

StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant


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