From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 28 10:39:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from corinth.bossig.com (corinth.bossig.com [208.26.239.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3270A15008 for ; Tue, 28 Dec 1999 10:39:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (kenn1204.bossig.com [208.26.241.204]) by corinth.bossig.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 3.4.5) with ESMTP id ; Tue, 28 Dec 1999 10:46:21 -0800 Message-ID: <386903BF.60D39A5A@3-cities.com> Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 10:38:55 -0800 From: Kent Stewart Organization: Columbia Basin Virtual Community Project X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Cc: schilling , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HELP!! References: <4.1.19991228125230.009de100@mail.udel.edu> <4.1.19991228131059.009df610@mail.udel.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John wrote: > > <--snip--> > >> device ex0 at isa? port? net irq? > > > >Check the HARDWARE.TXT for the "ie0" device. That seems to cover his > >NIC. The ex0 is an EtherExpress Pro 10 and not an EtherExpress 16. > > Wooooooops. My apolgies for my misdirection there. As my boss used to > tell me... "I'll love reading once I learn how...." =) Thanks for the > correction, Kent. Hey, I personally think computers were developed to keep us all humble. There is no IMHO unless you make the H for honest. Once you get good at something you need a daily refresher on being humble. I was a local site representative doing hot-line support for a Service Center in Dallas, TX that used CDC-Cybers. I came to believe that the mind reads what it wants. On numerous occasions, I looked at a customers file and had them read the line back to me. They still didn't see the typo until I pointed it out. Their mind knew what was supposed to be there and that is what it saw. You can't have some one explain what they did because their error will seem reasonable to you. A cold look first is much more likely to find dumb errors. If you don't see anything, then ask them what they did. What caught my eye is that I have an EtherExpress Pro 100 in my system and the 16 made me look further. I hadn't seen that before. The LINT file certainly wasn't helpfull at that point. Fortunately, the HARDWARE.TXT was more enlightening for the "ie0". BTW, your most important friend is one who can catch your dumb errors and not make you feel stupid :). It is a two way street. When they need help, you have to return the favor. Cheers, Kent > > --John -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message