Re: Debian-wide firmware prober

2021-02-10 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
積丹尼 Dan Jacobson writes: > Z> isenkram-cli > > OK, but it seems to work differently that what I was thinking. I assume you are talking about isenkram-autoinstall-firmware? How so? Perhaps the documentation could be improved to adjust the expectations, or event the program could be adjusted...

Re: Debian-wide firmware prober

2021-02-10 Thread Thaddeus H. Black
On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 08:31:43AM +, Paul Sutton wrote: > ... I had never heard of that one, these tools need to be better known. If Enrico Zini's and Enrico Rossi's 'debtags' is installed, then try this command: debtags search hardware::detection That makes the tools better known. Add

Re: Debian-wide firmware prober

2021-02-10 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Z> isenkram-cli OK, but it seems to work differently that what I was thinking.

Re: Debian-wide firmware prober

2021-02-10 Thread Paul Sutton
On 10/02/2021 06:31, Zlatan wrote: There is isenkram-cli which can detect and autoinstall the needed firmware. Z Ah thanks for this, I had never heard of that one, these tools need to be better known. Also vrms, lists any non-free software installed it may help anyone who wants to k

Re: Debian-wide firmware prober

2021-02-09 Thread Zlatan
There is isenkram-cli which can detect and autoinstall the needed firmware. Z On February 10, 2021 3:11:29 AM GMT+01:00, "積丹尼 Dan Jacobson" wrote: >Hey everybody, >wouldn't it be nice if there was a prober, >like lshw, >that probed all the firmware one needed? >https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/b

Debian-wide firmware prober

2021-02-09 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Hey everybody, wouldn't it be nice if there was a prober, like lshw, that probed all the firmware one needed? https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=982402 It would say: " You need the following Debian firmware packages firmware-X firmware-Y firmware-Z Remember, a proper system need