On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 8:11 PM, rhubbell <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:52:48 -0800 > J.C. Roberts wrote: > >> On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:45:24 -0800 rhubbell <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> > I'm new to OpenBSD and so far so good. >> > One thing I am floundering around on is that I cannot get my 3Com >> > card working. >> >> You're new, so you might want to read the following: >> >> http://www.openbsd.org/mail.html >> [quote] >> "Include important information >> Don't waste everyone's time with a hopelessly incomplete question. >> No one other than you has the information needed to resolve your >> problem, it is better to provide more information than needed than one >> detail too little. Any question should include at least the version of >> OpenBSD (i.e., "3.2-stable", "3.3-current as of July 20, 2003"). Any >> hardware related questions should mention the platform (i.e., sparc, >> alpha, etc.), and provide a full dmesg(8)." >> [/quote] > > Ok. I guess once I'm here for a while I can waste everyone's time with > nasty analogies (see other thrd about "platform of choice") (^: > >> >> The reason for that last bit about providing a "full dmesg" is the full >> dmesg shows lots of important details. In a sense, you can think of >> the full demeg as showing a picture of your full environment. > > Yes, sure does. I guess I got lucky this time and picked the right lines > to include from dmesg.
Not really. It's really important to know what your processor is, and in some cases if you're running APM or ACPI. There can be a lot of variables involved in a hardware problem (think: IRQ conflicts) and and after years on this list I've seen plenty of cases where someone (more than once myself) has thought a problem simple when it was actually anything but. Welcome to OpenBSD, though! Do make yourself at home, only Theo bites. -Nick
