Re: Dell Inspiron 7500 N/book problems

From: Rick Moen (rick_at_linuxmafia.com)
Date: 08/30/04 

Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 23:38:44 GMT

John Leishman <john@leishman.id.au> wrote:
>> Coincidentally, I happen to have recently posted a guide to Linux on the
>> Inspiron 7000, your model's kin. However, my Inspiron has neither a DVD
>> drive nor an LS-120, so it probably won't be relevant to your immediate
>> problem. Still, just in case you're curious:
>>
>> http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/inspiron7000.html
>>
> Thanks for that. Appears RH 9 and patches via up2date have in the main
> recognized most of the bits. However,
> error kio_devices_mounthelper; cant load superblock
> when attempting to mount the LS120 drive...
>
> The lan, pcmcia card, looks ok, switch lights indicate it's talking but
> try to browse to the desk top machine on the other end and;
>
> Klauncher said Error loading kio_lan
>
> Stuggling here, any ideas?

1. So, admittedly I didn't technically say "I'm not the right person to
ask, having not used the hardware you're talking about", but I certainly
implied it, and here you are, asking _specifically me_ for help.
There's something peculiar, there.

2. A problem with your general approach: You're trying to use strictly
high-level, abstract tools -- ones many layers of software away from
your hardware -- which give almost nil debugging information, and
expecting people to somehow hand you a solution out of nowhere. As
you're likely to find out for yourself, that almost never works.

You should be posting things like: relevant excerpts from
/var/log/messages and /var/log/dmesg , relevant excerpts from "lsmod"
(e.g., do you have the ide-floppy driver loaded?), exactly what manual
"mount" command you use instead of relying on the KDE automounter doing
the right thing (which may not be the case[1]), etc.

If you want to get help, you need to supply meaningful information.

Oh, and by the way:
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Essays/smart-questions.html

[1] In fact, you should halt that process temporarily, lest it interfere
with diagnosis. 

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