Hardware detect manager for AL (hwd-4.x)

rasat · 2004-07-23 08:52:36

punkrockguy318 wrote:

Is there any way users could contribute?

There is one area to modify /sbin/hwsetup.

To not make this thread too long.... its aleady long, I added one new forum in Arch Users' Project Discussion:
http://bliss-solutions.org/archlinux/pr … c.php?t=18

rasat · 2004-07-24 07:21:06

punkrockguy318 wrote:

Maybe hardware specs and the modules they use?

I have one list copied from kernel 2.4.24's configure-help file. I have not decided how to use it.
http://amlug.net/new-projects/hwd/devices-modules

Make it into a web database or to display module description for each detected module in /proc/modules (hwd-e) or both?

Problem with /proc/modules it doesn't show kernel built modules. For this requires vendor and device id number.

dp · 2004-07-24 15:10:24

hwd 2.4-1 in extra - enjoy

rasat · 2004-08-29 09:47:46

I was not planning to announce new upgrades of hwd now when its in extra. But I was able to include few new major features and hwd moved to series 3.x.

Hwd is now able to list all detected pci and usb devices (hwd -v). It also detects system information of memory and mount points usage (hwd -y). And improved expert mode.

PCMCIA card detection is still weak but hopefully will improve in coming upgrades. I found the pcmciatable (same as pcitable and usbtable with vendor and device id) but the search script is still missing similar to lspci and lsusb. Where does pcmcia records the vendid and devid... in /proc???

hwd-3.0 not yet in extra, get at home page:
http://amlug.net/new-projects/hwd/hwd.html

EDIT:
To check pcmcia vendid and devid is "cardctl ident".... by pcmcia-cs package. Next version will have a proper pcmcia detection.

kakabaratruskia · 2004-08-31 02:25:18

hwd 3.x is amazing!!! Thank you rasat, hwd is the best tool ever... I think it would be extremely useful if hwd became an oficial part of arch... By oficial I mean documented in the oficial documentation, and maybe as an option in the install (to know which modules to load). Just my 2 cents...

Good job rasat!

rasat · 2004-09-27 13:03:31

rasat wrote:

PCMCIA card detection is still weak but hopefully will improve in coming upgrades.

I am working on the pcmcia table in wiki but its a tedious work. Any help would be appreciated. Search for new pcmcia cards (with vendor and device id). Find missing vendor id, device id, and module names.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/pcmcia%20table

rasat · 2004-11-02 09:41:26

rasat wrote:

I was not planning to announce new upgrades of hwd now when its in extra. But I was able to include few new major features and hwd moved to series 3.x.

With the help of useful information and suggestion from phrakture, hwd again has underwent a major upgrade. Hwd is no longer "based on Knoppix" though X configure engine still remains. Lot of clean up of files and changes in the /etc/hwd/hwd script. Also I got to know /sbin/hwsetup uses the redhat hardware library (kudzu), not Knoppix. The hwsetup will also soon go out, already largely replaced by a new /sbin/hwdetet (bash).

Hwdetect recognizes multiple HD, CDROM and netcards and "hwd -v" detects PCMCIA cards.
Version 4.0 is uploaded for testing. Final will be 4.1.
I will appreciate if PCMCIA card users can run a test. I don't have laptop.

Screenshot:
http://amlug.net/new-projects/hwd/simple4.0.jpg
Download:
http://amlug.net/new-projects/hwd/packages/

phrakture · 2004-11-02 15:20:04

hooray!

rasat · 2004-11-04 16:26:05

This is a test finding how "/sbin/hwstetup -v -n" (checking installed devices) and /usr/sbin/ddcxinfo-knoppix -monitor" (monitor detetct) behaves in different machines. The test doesn't affect your system.

The test is at "Arch Users' Project Discussion" forum. To reply no need to register.
http://bliss-solutions.org/archlinux/pr … c.php?t=20

cmf · 2004-11-07 18:29:28

Any plans on changing the backend of hwd to use hotplug/DBUS/HAL? Seems they're nicely progressing into the best tools for the job of hardware management.

punkrockguy318 · 2004-11-07 19:25:54

cmf wrote:

Any plans on changing the backend of hwd to use hotplug/DBUS/HAL? Seems they're nicely progressing into the best tools for the job of hardware management.

That'd probobly be your best bet.

rasat · 2004-11-08 04:11:13

cmf wrote:

Any plans on changing the backend of hwd to use hotplug/DBUS/HAL?

Before answering I had to take a look what DBUS and HAL do. Debian's package list is usually my first search:

DBUS - simple interprocess messaging system
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/devel/dbus-1.html
HAL- Hardware Abstraction Layer
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/hal

Question arise if they do better job than lspci from pciutils package. lspci is an alternative I have in mind, but unfortunately it will be difficult to categorize the output into separate device types (audio, network, sound, etc.) from vendor and device ids alone. This is why hwsetup from kudzu is handy.... but slow.

Main point here is to have/get a search engine to detect all possible internal and external devices. Currently among Arch users there are not yet many "gadget users" with all types of devices we find in the market. They still prefer Windows, which most of the gadgets are designed for. But they are coming. Already the number of digital digital camera, palm, special m/board and laptop configure questions are increasing.

EDIT:
Found Arch having packages for both dbus and hal. I will test how they work.

rasat · 2004-11-11 14:22:18

With the help of z4ziggy, who has joined the hwd project, a substantial cut in the timing is achieved. The time including generating a howto page, is now about 6 second instead of 16 seconds. The package size is much smaller. The whole engine is undergoing a major change, especially in the coming 4.2 (or 5.0).
Read more:
http://bliss-solutions.org/archlinux/pr … um.php?f=9

Version 4.1 is uploaded and soon in extra.

Download 4.1:
http://amlug.net/new-projects/hwd/packages/

<b>EDIT</b>
Vesrion 4.1.1 - few bugs were fixed.
Vesrion 4.1.2 - few more bugs were fixed.

rasat · 2004-11-11 15:44:14

To addition to the latest 4.1.2 announced in the previous post, there will also be cvs snapshots available for those interested to checkout latest hwd developments.

WebPM (simple web project manager for cvs):
http://www.bliss-solutions.org/archlinu … ?lang_id=2
Login: guest
password : guest

In "Hwd Project" click "snapshots" and scroll down to "snapshot" and click zip icon. It downloads tar.gz tarball.

Mr Green · 2004-12-23 18:36:50

USB DEVICE
Unknown line at line 1809
Duplicate HUT Usage Spec at line 2650
VendID  DevID  Module  Description
05d8    4002    "scanner"       "Trust|Flat scan USB 19200"

any ideas ?

MrGreen

rasat · 2004-12-23 20:03:20

Mr Green wrote:

05d8    4002    "scanner"       "Trust|Flat scan USB 19200"

any ideas ?

It says its a USB scanner with module "scanner". I have no experience with scanners, rather asking you if you know how to setup? If you do, please let me know so I can enter in hwd's man page.

Mr Green · 2004-12-23 20:11:19

Mr Green wrote:

USB DEVICE
Unknown line at line 1809
Duplicate HUT Usage Spec at line 2650

any ideas ?

MrGreen

It was the error I was refering to ....

I do not know if you have a bug tracker ......

rasat · 2004-12-24 03:53:03

Mr Green wrote:

It was the error I was refering to ....
I do not know if you have a bug tracker ......

That's a bug of usbutils-0.11

[root@localhost rasat]# lsusb
Unknown line at line 1809
Duplicate HUT Usage Spec at line 2650
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Virtual Hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 058f:9380 Alcor Micro, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0461:4d0c Primax Electronics
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Virtual Hub
[root@localhost rasat]#

Mr Green · 2004-12-24 08:29:01

oooops sorry :oops:

I will have to do a bit of reading up I would like my flash drive to show up as something other than a number

puntmuts · 2005-03-14 16:48:20

I filed a bug in the bugtracker but it was closed. Maybe you could have a look at this thread:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=10737

There are troubles detecting ethernet cards, isdn card, floppy drive, monitor refreshrates, etc.

phrakture · 2005-03-14 17:07:00

puntmuts wrote:

I filed a bug in the bugtracker but it was closed. Maybe you could have a look at this thread:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=10737
There are troubles detecting ethernet cards, isdn card, floppy drive, monitor refreshrates, etc.

see my response to the refresh rates issue

lucke · 2005-04-12 18:19:12

Could you provide us with some hwd changelog, rasat? I'm curious what's going on behind the scenes and can't find any relevant info ;-)

rasat · 2005-04-13 03:36:13

lucke wrote:

Could you provide us with some hwd changelog, rasat? I'm curious what's going on behind the scenes and can't find any relevant info ;-)

Thanks for reminding me, should have done it long time ago. Here is what I remember:
http://user-contributions.org/projects/hwd/CHANGELOG

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