From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Nov 26 17: 0: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mcp.csh.rit.edu (mcp.csh.rit.edu [129.21.60.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 646F837B416; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 16:59:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from fury.csh.rit.edu (fury.csh.rit.edu [129.21.60.5]) by mcp.csh.rit.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AFD21CA; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 19:59:47 -0500 (EST) Received: by fury.csh.rit.edu (Postfix, from userid 37404) id 1561F2E079; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 19:59:35 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 19:59:35 -0500 From: Jon Parise To: Daniel O'Connor Cc: Andrew Reid , Benno Rice , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.org, Greg Lehey Subject: Re: Any success stories with Dell Inspiron 4100? Message-ID: <20011126195935.G17835@csh.rit.edu> Mail-Followup-To: Daniel O'Connor , Andrew Reid , Benno Rice , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.org, Greg Lehey References: <20011126132504.D356@aviion.alfred.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.12i In-Reply-To: ; from doconnor@gsoft.com.au on Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 04:59:39PM +1030 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 04:59:39PM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > Does the i2500 hang indefinately? Mine'd spring back into life after > > the 30 seconds, but it was quite annoying. > > Nope, hangs 'forever' (I didn't wait that long). > > > It's interesting that niether Jarrod's or my Toshiba laptops have had > > those problems though. > > I haven't had a problem with the Inpsiron 8000. > > The kernel starts booting and hangs after printing.. > > ... > ata1: ... > uhci0: ... > usb0:... > uhub0: ... > pci0: ... vendor=0x8086 dev=0x2443 > uhci1: ... > usb1: ... > uhub1: ... > pci0: ... vendor=0x8086 dev=0x2445 > > The HD/FDD (the same light is for both) light stays on, I couldn't hit > ctrl-alt-bspace (is the 4.4 kern.flp kernel built with DDB?) or ctrl-alt-delete. > > Had to hold the power button down for ~4 seconds. > > There are no PnP OS type options in the BIOS. I get the same thing here with my Toshiba Satellite 3005-S304. I haven't been able to do much investigating being this machine lacks a standard serial port (although someone mentioned I might be able to use the IR port, instead; haven't had a chance to try that yet, though). -- Jon Parise (jon@csh.rit.edu) . Information Technology (2001) http://www.csh.rit.edu/~jon/ : Computer Science House Member To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message