[Rule] About SlinkyDetect, was: Installation Template

[C David Rigby]

Hi Pete,

Many thanks!

CDR

On 3/29/06, Pete Harlow <peter.harlow at gmail.com> wrote:
> There is a huge list of PCI IDs on
>
> http://members.datafast.net.au/dft0802/downloads/pcidevs.txt
>
> which may be of use.
>
> -P
>
> On 28/03/06, C David Rigby <c.david.rigby at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Automatic hardware detection has advanced quite a bit since the
> > underlying detect library used for slinky detect was created. I did a
> > bit of research/reading on the subject over the last week or so. I
> > turned up three sites that discuss this issue at an intermediate
> > level:
> >
> > http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Debian/hardware-detection.html
> >
> > http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Hardware_configuration
> >
> > http://wiki.debian.org/?HardwareAutodetection
> >
> > I'll dig a bit deeper in preparation for a hardware identification &
> > configuration article. I like the idea of a tool that can be run
> > against a room full of equipment and provide an automatic, electronic
> > "inventory report." That sounds like a highly useful project in its
> > own right, though a bit beyond what I could manage myself at this
> > point.
> >
> > CDR
> >
> > On 3/28/06, Marco Fioretti <mfioretti> wrote:
> > > David Rigby wrote:
> > >
> > > > Slinky Detect detects & reports on CPU, chipset, RAM, hard disk,
> > > > other IDE-attached devices, and PCI devices. It does not see ISA devices
> > > > or SCSI-attached and PCMCIA-attached devices, at least not that
> > > > I have been able to determine. As well its output seems, maybe, to be
> > > > a bit cryptic for the less technically savvy members of the potential
> > > > audience.
> > >
> > > I shall confess that I have never used slinkydetect personally. However,
> > > the main reason why it was born, and its only use case I've heard of so far,
> > > is not to be used once by the PC owner for his/her personal needs.
> > > Slinkydetect is (mainly) for gathering data always formatted in the same way,
> > > to build databases of lots of donated hardware: coordinator hands out one
> > > floppy to volunteers, they all go gathering old PCs, they never
> > > ever look at Slinkydetect output. They're just told: boot every
> > > PC you touch with this floppy, when it's full give it back to me.
> > > Then the coordinator writes, once, some online database that everybody
> > > can read via browser to know if there are X machines left for
> > > school so-and-so.
> > >
> > > Said this, your idea is excellent because it does cover the *other*
> > > use cases: single user looking to resurrect his home PC and so on.
> > >
> > > > So, that leads to the next proposed article topic,
> > > > which is an article concerning hardware identification. Besides using
> > > > Slinky Detect, other techniques (using Windows to identify hardware,
> > > > web searches, etc.) can be discussed in detail separately.
> > >
> > > Ciao,
> > > Marco
> > >
> > >
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