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Check hardware compatibility

2020-11-27T13:21:16Z

Linuxbuild: Rephrase

{{Note|This article is related to bare-metal Alpine installations. This is not for Alpine installed in any virtual environment (Docker, VZ container or VM).}}

There is an easy and quick method to check all hardware devices on the motherboard for Linux-compatibility with the help of recently added [https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/packages?name=hw-probe hw-probe package] in edge/testing. The tool checks operability of hardware devices by analysis of logs and tries to find missed drivers with the help of [https://cateee.net/lkddb/ LKDDb].

= Install =
The package can be installed from edge/testing repository by the following command:

sudo apk add --no-cache -X http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing hw-probe

= Check hardware =
{{Note|Private information (including the username, machine's hostname, IP addresses, MAC addresses and serial numbers) is NOT uploaded to the database. The tool uploads 32-byte prefix of salted SHA512 hash of MAC addresses and serial numbers to properly identify unique computers and hard drives. All the data is uploaded securely via HTTPS.}}
{{Tip|If you are security paranoid try to run [https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxhw/hw-probe/ Docker image] or [https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.linux_hardware.hw-probe Flatpak app] instead of the apk package to restrict access to meaningful system resources.}}

Use this command:

sudo -E hw-probe -all -upload

Sample output:

Probe for hardware ... Ok
Reading logs ... Ok
Uploaded to DB, Thank you!
Probe URL: [https://linux-hardware.org/?probe=43a8c9674e https://linux-hardware.org/?probe=43a8c9674e]

Now follow the link to check if everything is fine according to the hardware knowledge base.

User:Linuxbuild

2020-01-18T18:36:37Z

Linuxbuild: Self-intro

Andrey P.

Software engineer. Maintainer of the [[Check_hardware_compatibility]] page.

Check hardware compatibility

2020-01-18T18:35:08Z

Linuxbuild: Add a note about the hw-probe package from edge/testing

{{Note|This article is related to bare-metal Alpine installations. This is not for Alpine installed in any virtual environment (Docker, VZ container or VM).}}

There is an easy and quick method to check all hardware devices on the motherboard for Linux-compatibility with the help of recently added [https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/packages?name=hw-probe hw-probe package] in edge/testing. The tool checks operability of devices by analysis of logs and searches for missed drivers by the [https://cateee.net/lkddb/ LKDDb].

= Install =
The package can be installed from edge/testing repository by the following command:

sudo apk add --no-cache -X http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing hw-probe

= Check hardware =
{{Note|Private information (including the username, machine's hostname, IP addresses, MAC addresses and serial numbers) is NOT uploaded to the database. The tool uploads 32-byte prefix of salted SHA512 hash of MAC addresses and serial numbers to properly identify unique computers and hard drives. All the data is uploaded securely via HTTPS.}}
{{Tip|If you are security paranoid try to run [https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxhw/hw-probe/ Docker image] or [https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.linux_hardware.hw-probe Flatpak app] instead of the apk package to restrict access to meaningful system resources.}}

Use this command:

sudo -E hw-probe -all -upload

Sample output:

Probe for hardware ... Ok
Reading logs ... Ok
Uploaded to DB, Thank you!
Probe URL: [https://linux-hardware.org/?probe=43a8c9674e https://linux-hardware.org/?probe=43a8c9674e]

Now follow the link to check if everything is fine according to the hardware knowledge base.