On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 17:51 +0300, Yaroslav Rastrigin wrote:
> Hi, Lee,
> On 9 January 2006 16:54, you wrote:
> > >
> >
> > Where are the bug reports? You didn't expect these to just fix
> > themselves did you?
> Been there, done that. Bugreport about malfunctioning (due to ACPI) 3c556 in IBM ThinkPad T20 was looked at once in a few months without any progress,
> and I've finally lost track of it after changing hardware. In more than a year this problem wasn't solved, so I'm assuming bugreports aren't so effective.
> 2200BG ping and packet loss problem was reported in ipw2200-devel mailing list recently (by another user), and the only answer was
> "Switch to version 1.0.0" (which is tooo old and missing needed features and bugfixes, so recommentation was unacceptable). So I'm assuming addressing
> developers directly is not too effective either.
> Two other options I see are to debug/fix it by myself and try to stimulate others monetarily. First option isn't really affordable for me ,
> so I'm trying to research second.
Bug reports certainly are effective, but if no one else can reproduce
your problem then obviously it can't be fixed.
A bug report that gets no responses is a good sign that you need to
provide more information or work a little harder to debug it yourself.
Lee
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