Re: Suggestion: Actively support reverse engineering projects

2007-08-09 Thread Aaron Whitehouse
> > I have a suggestion about how to actively support > > reverse engineering projects. In the Ubuntu Hardware Database client, we step through a user's hardware and ask them about how it is working. Perhaps we could add a hyperlink (or button to install the requisite packages/start another wizard

Re: Suggestion: Actively support reverse engineering projects

2007-08-09 Thread Joel Bryan Juliano
On 8/7/07, Magnus Blomfelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > I have a suggestion about how to actively support > reverse engineering projects. I think reverse engineering is important for developing a driver or any particular interface that communicates with a hardware (ie winmodems) or sof

Re: Suggestion: Actively support reverse engineering projects

2007-08-07 Thread Greg K Nicholson
If this could be done with absolutely no user intervention (i.e. if the only thing missing is the right hardware), perhaps we could come up with something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or, simpler, a program that the user starts manually and just leaves running (while not using t

Suggestion: Actively support reverse engineering projects

2007-08-07 Thread Magnus Blomfelt
Hi, I have a suggestion about how to actively support reverse engineering projects. There are some FOSS drivers in the works that is not yet suitable for Ubuntu. However helping them along the way might get us there sooner. My suggestion is a program that would match the hardware a user have wit