John Andersen wrote: > Actually my experience is that you get your answer to all solvable > problems usually within an hour of posting on the list. > > Unsolvable problems (hardware problems, and those questions so arcane > and obscure as to require kernel hackers to respond) tend to never > get answered.
That's a little too coarse - I think questions asked here might be better divided into: 1) Problems/questions with fairly well known solutions/answers. Obviously does not have to be known to everybody; examples include how to rename a network interface or configure ntp. 2) Problems that require diagnostic information and analysis of the same. E.g. lspci/dmesg/lsusb output or excerpts from /var/log/* 3) Arcane/obscure problems that does not require a kernel hacker. 4) Unsolvable/arcane/obscure problems that does require a kernel hacker. Type1 questions are frequently answered quite fast, quite often within hours. Type2 can take 24hours to a few days, but are also often answered satisfactorily. Type3 are occasionally answered too, but it's a matter of luck. Type4 are rarely if ever answered. None of these problems are "unsolvable", but 3 and 4 are hard/difficult. Here's a type3 question - can I create an etherboot PXE boot-disk (for booting opnesuse) with support for more than one type NIC? e.g. both 3C509 and RTL8139 ? /Per Jessen, Zürich -- http://www.spamchek.com/ - managed email security. Starting at SFr4/user/month. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
