Good evening, John,
On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, John Weber wrote:
> > I hate to say it, but your question isn't all that useful in its
> > current form. What kinds of problems? What pcmcia version? What kernel
> > configuration? What error messages? Functional problems? Compiling
> > problems? Cosmetic problems? Are they reproducable? How can we
> > reproduce the problem?
>
> Actually, my note was supposed to be longer... but I had a little
> technical difficulty in getting the question out. My machine completely
> crashed actually...
We can all commiserate; kernel crashes are annoying.
> funny that I thought it was just a kernel thing.
It may very well be. What error messages did you see? What
symptoms? What was happening at the time it crashed?
> Thanks anyway.
I've come off badly and apologize. We really are all here to
identify and fix kernel problems. I wasn't writing the above to badger
you, but to encourage you to provide as much detail as you can to help us
help you.
Cheers,
- Bill
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea;
massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source
of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it."
-- Anon
(Courtesy of someone at Redhat, perhaps Elliot Lee?)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
William Stearns (wstearns@pobox.com). Mason, Buildkernel, named2hosts,
and ipfwadm2ipchains are at: http://www.pobox.com/~wstearns
LinuxMonth; articles for Linux Enthusiasts! http://www.linuxmonth.com
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Thu Nov 15 2001 - 21:00:32 EST