From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Feb 1 9:21:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from pittgoth.com (14.zlnp1.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.149.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E16B937B416; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 09:21:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from pittgoth.com (lcl234.zbzoom.net [208.236.36.234]) by 209.195.149.111 (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g11HAh102942; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 12:10:43 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from darklogik@pittgoth.com) Message-ID: <3C5ACDE9.2060300@pittgoth.com> Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 12:18:33 -0500 From: Tom Rhodes Reply-To: darklogik@pittgoth.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20011221 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: doc@freebsd.org Cc: Xavier Beaudouin , freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/34487: Feedback request on hardware FAQ idea References: <200202011520.g11FKON14631@freefall.freebsd.org> <3C5AC7F4.5070704@pittgoth.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Xavier Beaudouin wrote: The following reply was made to PR docs/34487; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Xavier Beaudouin To: Hiten Pandya Cc: Subject: re: kern/34487: ASUS P2B-DS Problem (Close Request) Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 15:15:42 +0100 (CET) Hi ! > > As agreed above, by the originator, the problem/issue is > resolved, and all neccessary *new* firmware updates were > applied. > > If the originator agrees, this PR can be successfully closed, > and I will take the point to document this problem in the > Handbook, as my next patch to the FreeBSD-Doc list. This is ok for me, the upgrade of the SCSI bios with v1013 of the bios totaly solve this problem... > This also suggests that we put up a "Troubleshooting" section > in the installation chapter of the handbook. This goes to > murray and the -doc team [;)] This is maybe a good idea... because I wasn't able to find anything about this specific motherboard problem... and a little note about upgrading the bios should help people [:)] Thanks again [:)] /Xavier -- Xavier Beaudouin - Unix System Administrator & Projects Leader. For mail address, please check header of this mails. Spams are not accepted. Caudium: http://caudium.net/, CAMAS webmail: http://camas.caudium.net/ [ Little fortune now ] Those who don't understand UNIX are doomed to reinvent it, poorly. --Henry Spencer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message It would be such a difficult task to document all the different hardware "make-me-work" 's that are availible. And sometimes, you can blame install problems on RAM, which happened to me once when trying to extract into / and /usr from the cd, its been about 6 months since this last happened, so please do not expect my memory to be exact. I would offer the idea of a 'hardware FAQ' or hardware 'article' which would help to document the various problems and installation methods of various hardware and hardware configurations. But this will undoubtedly bring forth the problems of "who will" and "with what time", plus generate a task of keeping track of the many different hardware configurations, which would be very difficult if not nearly impossible. A good resource for this type of documentation, as in gathering the information, would be hanging around the news groups gathering posts of hardware problems and how they were fixed, the various FreeBSD mailing lists, and even some #FreeBSD chat rooms throughout the IRC world. Opinions, or am I just crazy? -- Tom (Darklogik) Rhodes www.Pittgoth.com Gothic Liberation Front www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message