Vandaman wrote: > Dag Wieers wrote: > >> Hmm, then I am probably confusing it with some other tool I >> tried to package coming from SuSE. I do have a SPEC file on >> my buildsystem, but it does not work. I will investigate >> when I find the time. >> > > Hwinfo is SUSE specific. > > Debian page says :- > > Debian -- Details of package hwinfo in sid > hwinfo is the hardware detection tool used in SuSE Linux. > In Debian Edu ( Skolelinux) hwinfo has shown better results > than discover when detecting mouse, .. > > The Mandriva spec file lists :- > Add debian patch to get it build in non-suse distro At the risk of repeating myself - it does build/run on CentOS 5. http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2008-November/067612.html Phil -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Philip_R_Schaffner.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 354 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20081110/3d030c65/attachment-0003.vcf>