Re: [alliance-iosk] LM ?

[arik devens <caelur@innocent.com>]

i think that this is a great idea. as much as we can simplify the
hardware config the better.

that is something that routinely trips up newbies and experienced users
alike. anything we can do to make it easy we should.

arik

Ramon van Handel wrote:
> 
> >> I'm not too pleased with my printer, but I'm glad I can be of service as LM
> >> tester ;)
> >
> >It's a 9-pin dot matrix? If so, it's good for printing listing and nothing
> >else, I guess. As testbed :).
> 
> I hardly ever use it, I usually print on the laser printer we have here at
> school.
> 
> >> On modern systems, there are two dumps you can make:
> >>
> >>  - PCI dump
> >
> >not so useful, at least from IOSK point of view....
> >
> >>  - ISA-PnP dump
> >
> >even this one. Something is useful, but for LPT/serial/keyboard I want
> >something else. I'll look around.
> 
> Perhaps we should think of a general (cross-platform) system information
> system for use in alliance.  Something like this:
> 
> - we should think of a way that every device has a unique ID
> - for each ID, there should be a structure that describes it
> - on IOSK device could return the structure for any device ID
> 
> What do you think ?  Any ideas ?
> 
> Ramon
> 
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