I too think that would be great. Unfortunately, I am so hopelessly bad at coding that the task will have to fall to someone else. I can string a sentence together though so maybe I can provide an interim solution through an FAQ.
Jason. -----Original Message----- From: Robbie Huffman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 1999 9:55 AM To: Carley, Jason (Australia) Subject: Re: New Users FAQ - comment? On Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 08:11:17AM +1000, Carley, Jason Australia" wrote: > Any comments welcome. > > Jason. OK, from what I see, the most common problems are modems and printers. "How do I get my winmodem to work with Debian?" ;) "Why doesn't my modem pick up caller ID?" "How do I set up /etc/printcap?" I know there are good FAQs and HOWTOs out there, but even I have found them to be severely lacking at times. Sure, many of these questions can be answered by forwarding people to the HOWTOs, but many others cannot. I dunno how to handle this. But I do have an idea which might be worth batting around. The Debian website has a "FAQ-O-MATIC" section. Hard to use. Not full of information. I would love to see a GTK or ncurses client which can access a database of this sort of information. Search by general category, hardware, or an open-ended question. Not only a website, but a good and solid client. And then get the list members to commit to putting this information in the database. Just an idea ;) Robbie
