Smolt

by Clive — last modified Mar 15, 2008 12:06 PM

— filed under: Post-Install Solutions

Have you ever tried to find out, if a specific computer device (e.g. laptop, sound card, wireless card) you want to buy, works with Linux? If yes, you know how distributed all the information is over the net. Here is the chance to build a solid, updated database.

Applicable to Fedora Versions

Fedora 8

Requirements

Explanation of requirements.

Fedora 8
Smolts enabled during install

Doing the Work

Basic description of what will be done and what is expected.

This command will send your hardware configuration to the Smolts system and give you an address you can view your machines hardware in a web browser.

$ smoltSendProfile

Send this information to the Smolt server? (y/n) y

Scanning http://www.smolts.org/ for known errata.

No errata found, if this machine is having issues please go to
your profile and create a wiki page for the device so others can
benefit

To share your profile: 
        http://www.smolts.org/client/show?uuid=pub_fed1993c-a58a-43bb-9db7-9ebfbff9b2a0 (public)

To view your profile in a web browser, right click, open link or cut and paste into a web browser. If requested you can share your profile on IRC or a Forum to help troubleshoot faults

http://www.smolts.org/client/show?uuid=pub_fed1993c-a58a-43bb-9db7-9ebfbff9b2a0

Troubleshooting

Common problems and fixes

Describe common problems here, include links to known common problems if on another site

If you get the following error when trying to view the smolt web page

Error: Critical: New versions of smolt use a public UUID. Yours is:

Run the following command to generate a new public profile, you will be given a link to a new web site at the end.

smoltSendProfile -n

More Information

Any additional information or notes.

Disclaimer

We test this stuff on our own machines, really we do. But you may run into problems, if you do, come to #fedora on irc.freenode.net

Added Reading

www.smolts.org
Smolts Wiki

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