From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 15 13:41: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2DD337B417 for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 13:40:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish ([10.0.0.10]) by freebie.atkielski.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id g0FLele13103; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 22:40:48 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Message-ID: <00ee01c19e0d$4c518960$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "Mike Meyer" Cc: References: <15428.34332.870130.2946@guru.mired.org><00cc01c19e06$8dafddf0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <15428.38970.224790.33804@guru.mired.org> Subject: Re: USB CF reader (SanDisk) epilog Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 22:40:48 +0100 Organization: Anthony's Home Page (development site) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike writes: > The source has proven to be adequate documenation > for others to solve similar problems. Perhaps in a few isolated cases, but in overall practice this is a widespread misconception. One reason why technical support groups try to solve problems by throwing darts and rolling dice, even though they often have access to source, is that source code only tells you what a computer is doing, not why it is doing it. It usually does no good to see in source how error 123 is processed if you don't know what error 123 represents. > ... the output of "usbdevs -v" for the > usb device in question. The output of the command seems to just print what I put in the usbd.conf file, and I don't know why I put what I did in that file, since I just copied it from somewhere else (no documentation, as usual). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message