-----Original Message----- From: Steven Hatfield [mailto:ashari@knightswood.net] Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 10:35 PM To: Jerry Van Brimmer Cc: SuSE Mailing List Subject: Re: [SLE] Frustrated with Linux jvb Dear Jerry, I know exactly how you feel! I've felt the same way for a whole week now.. but let me tell you a story. About 8 days ago, I shelled out $450 for 2 things: 1 Belkin PCI FireWire Card and 1 Yamaha 16/10/40 External FireWire CDRW drive Why this card/drive? Don't ask, it's complicated. Anyways, I was determined to get it to work on my SuSE 7.1 box. I compiled the ieee1394 (FireWire) stuff into modules and started working with it. That lasted all of about 15 seconds. Nothing worked. Box locked up when I did simple things like insmod the modules. Boy was I frustrated. Sound familiar? Well, I decided that hey.. this is Linux, and Linux users don't get frustrated, they get involved! So I joined the Linux1394 FireWire Mailing list located on or around the page: http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/faq.html (this is from my bookmarks ;-) and started sending out feeler emails.. trying to see if I could get some help. Over the next 3 days, I didn't receive much of anything, just a "try this" and a "try that".. it seemed like it was going very slowly, and I became worried. Then today, I received an email asking me how I was doing with it. I replied back "not too good" and then the best thing happened.. a conversation via email ... back and forth .. try this .. didn't work... try that... didn't work, but this happened and it's not longer doing this or that.. ok, good, now try this. Within a couple of hours, I had a fully working Yamaha CDRW drive! The first one that they have seen working, might I add. Now I can go about my business as an end user and know that not only did I contribute to the process, but that the process contributed to me. On no other operating system can you get this level of support. Not for free, and most likely not for any price. UDF? It'll happen. Especially if you get involved. Have a great night. -Steven That's Great! I love to hear stories about that kind of stuff. I work for an automotive company and I have windows machine's everywhere! The only thing running unix, witch I'm not able to do anything with is are server running the reynolds & reynolds system. (anybody know any good hacks for Reynolds?) I got my DSL up and running at home for linux by looking around for info on the newsgroups and the email lists. There's a lot of help out there just keep looking. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq and the archives at http://lists.suse.com