Thread: [Ndiswrapper-general] Re-arranging the List page (was: You can't always trust iwconfig)
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From: Andrew M. <And...@ne...> - 2005-02-08 16:36:05
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Well that's one vote of confidence, I'd be willing to have a try at sorting this out, but I don't have a lot of spare time, if people are prepared to wait. My only reservations are: We would have to make very clear how to update and enter new cards or the whole things would just become a mess. (eg on entering a new card type you'd have to make sure that the manufacturer, pciid, driver etc.. pages were up to date) Do the admins think it's a good idea? I don't want to majorly mess around with something that is everyone's Andrew M 8^0-Meow > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Losaw [mailto:lin...@ya...] > Sent: 08 February 2005 16:30 > To: Andrew Martin > Subject: RE: [Ndiswrapper-general] Re: You can't always trust iwconfig >=20 > It sounds very logical and convenient. I don't really > know how the wiki is now, but I would've loved a > resource like this in order to make me realize I had > to use the RTL8180 driver, instead of the ones offered > on Netgear's CD. >=20 > --- Andrew Martin <And...@ne...> > wrote: >=20 > > Just thinking a bit more, you could make the Lists > > page a bit better and > > "sort of" searchable by doing the following... > > > > 1) Put every successful card into its own page (I > > can see this idea > > being really unpopular but bear with me), so you > > would have a netgear > > wg311v2 page or a Belkin F5D6020 page or whatever... > > For each card you > > have ONE top level page and then allow contributors > > to make there own > > page under it or fill in details on that page > > > > 2) Make a Page with a list of manufacturers on, you > > could then link to > > the pages in 1) by manufacturer > > > > 3) Make a Page with a list of pciids on, you could > > then link to the > > pages in 1) by pciid > > > > 4) Make a Page with a list of chipsets on, you could > > then link to the > > pages in 1) by chipset > > > > And so on, I think you see what I'm getting at? > > > > Furthermore, on each page in 1) you could provide a > > drivers link which > > would contain links to drivers known to work for > > that card. > > > > This would all take time but is totally possible > > with wiki, how does > > that sound to others? > > > > Andrew M 8^0-Meow > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: > > ndi...@li... > > [mailto:ndiswrapper- > > > gen...@li...] On Behalf Of > > Andrew Martin > > > Sent: 07 February 2005 17:13 > > > To: ndi...@li... > > > Subject: RE: [Ndiswrapper-general] Re: You can't > > always trust iwconfig > > > > > > Hi, > > > I've cleaned up the wiki distros page a little by > > just putting > > > the info into separate pages, looks a bit better > > now. > > > > > > I'm sure there is a better way to represent the > > useful information on > > > the List page, is there any functionality like the > > alsa sound card > > > matrix in the wiki? (I don't think there is, but > > not sure :( ) > > > > > > http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/ > > > > > > It would be excellent to search on either pciid, > > Manufacturer, card, > > > driver etc... > > > > > > In fact having a cross referencing list would be > > even more useful, so > > > you could say Manufacturer and Card and you could > > get a list of > > > ndiswrapper version that have been reported to > > work and what drivers > > > were used, or select a pciid and get a list of > > cards with that pciid > > and > > > try out each driver etc.... > > > > > > I just think being able to get to the same info on > > the list page via > > > different methods would be useful. > > > > > > Andrew M 8^0-Meow > > > > > > > While on the topic of wiki: Some of the > > documents seem to have > > > information > > > > that shouldn't be there (e.g., Distributions > > wiki has information > > > about > > > > what > > > > cards work with what, which should be in List > > wiki). Some documents > > > are > > > > laced > > > > with tidbits, along with names of contributors. > > This breaks > > continuity > > > and > > > > may > > > > not really help the user. Please keep the > > documents as clear as > > > possible; > > > > adding more details is good, but only if it > > helps someone. Also, > > > please > > > > don't > > > > add names to corrections in the middle of > > documents. If you want, > > you > > > can > > > > add > > > > your name at the end of document and refer your > > contribution. > > > > > > > > As someone suggested earlier, Distributions wiki > > is too long with > > > > extraneous > > > > information. Cleaning it up and splitting into > > multiple sub-pages > > (one > > > for > > > > Debian, one for Fedora etc) would help. > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- > > Interactive > > Reporting > > > Tool for open source databases. 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From: Giridhar P. <gi...@lm...> - 2005-02-08 17:10:13
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On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 16:35:50 -0000, "Andrew Martin" <And...@ne...> said: Andrew> Do the admins think it's a good idea? I don't want to majorly mess Andrew> around with something that is everyone's It doesn't matter what the "admins" think. It is a wiki. If your idea doesn't fly, someone else will come along and "fix" it. My 2 cents: If it is too complicated for a user to add info, either it won't be done right or the user will just not add the info to wiki. It will also require constant maintenance to make sure the cross links are correct etc. As wiki seems to be a bit messed up right now (info about various cards in Distributions, random comments with names in the middle of howto etc), it needs a cleanup. gr...@us... aka benko on IRC has agreed to maintain wiki. -- Giri |