Curt wrote:
On 2012-06-05, Dan B. <danb@kempt.net> wrote:What the heck did hwinfo do to my machine?Thanks to some suggestions that somehow caused me to check basic floppy access, I discovered that the problem was ... (get ready for a big letdown) ... a loose floppy cable.So you're saying when you typed "hwinfo" into an xterm, it shook the cable loose?
No, the cable wasn't quite _that_ loose. It was plugging and unplugging a serial modem cable and an internal adapter cable that shook the floppy's cable loose (and that happened very close in time to when I installed and ran hwinfo). Daniel