From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 Description of problem: a tool (eg. let me tell it for now "hclquery" ) in conjunction with anaconda, kudzu, hwbrowser, kernel-driver, fedora/redhat website hcl-database, http://hardware.redhat.com/hcl/ tldp hardware list, (i could not find it at http://tldp.org ) ... would be great for searching compatible hardware, modules, eas of installation, ... and/or for updating a centralized hcl-database eg. anaconda/kudzu/hwbrowser/... is finding an unknown hardware "will you search the fedora-hcl-database over the internet ?" "Y/n" "an updated driver was found / NothingFound" "will you provide us the output of lspci -vv automatically or later via email y/N" ... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 20040227 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. search a compatible hardware and the module before you purchase it 2. you has an unknown hardware for kudzu 3. you will update to fedora core 2 and you do not know that the fdomain modul is evtl. switched off in the kernel Actual Results: a lot of manpages, internet, mailinglists, howtos, ... research an incomplete, not well supported, outdated, ... hcl-database http://hardware.redhat.com/hcl/ Expected Results: this infos should be easy to find Additional info: eg. nvidia-installer
Currently, the HCL at http://hardware.redhat.com/hcl/ is for RHEL only. At the moment, internal to RH resources aren't being targetted at looking at solving this. Other solutions fromthe community might be accepted, though.