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14. Disclaimers etc.

Information is provided AS IS. No guarantee of accuracy or usefulness is provided.

There is no intention to provide legal advice in this document either. If you think there is some, I assure you there isn't, I suggest you seek local advice.

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Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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Questions and queries about isapnptools may be sent to mailto:isapnp@roestock.demon.co.uk, and the subject line must contain the word 'isapnp' to get past the spam filter. Note that contacting the above email address is not guaranteed to generate a reply; any reply obtained has no guarantee of accuracy or usefulness. To improve your chances of a useful reply, you should include the following information, as appropriate:

  1. Output of 'pnpdump -v' (should print out header stuff and usage)
  2. Output of 'cat /proc/cpuinfo'
  3. Output of 'cat /proc/pci'
  4. Output of 'cat /proc/interrupts'
  5. Output of 'cat /proc/ioports'
  6. Output of 'cat /proc/devices'
  7. Output of 'cat /usr/include/kernel/autoconf.h' (or the autoconf.h for the kernel you're running).
  8. Output of 'lsmod' if you use kernel modules
  9. The command lines used to install the relevant device driver kernel modules, or configure the built in device driver (eg setserial).
  10. Output of 'dmesg'
  11. Output of 'gcc -v'
  12. Output of 'ldd prog' where prog is the program giving trouble.
  13. Inputs and Outputs of the program giving trouble: 'prog args.. > prog.stdout 2> prog.stderr'
  14. The patch that cures the problem !

If you supply a useful patch, or useful idea for improvement, you will automatically be added to AUTHORS and the announcement mailing list, unless you say otherwise.


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