From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 27 04:21:52 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4699B16A4CE for ; Thu, 27 Nov 2003 04:21:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from web41101.mail.yahoo.com (web41101.mail.yahoo.com [66.218.93.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9117443FDF for ; Thu, 27 Nov 2003 04:21:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jmkatcher@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20031127122151.75514.qmail@web41101.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [165.121.60.52] by web41101.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 27 Nov 2003 04:21:51 PST Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 04:21:51 -0800 (PST) From: Jeffrey Katcher To: Randy Bush In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Latitude D800 (really Atheros support on T40) X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 12:21:52 -0000 --- Randy Bush wrote: > > As another data point, I'm running -CURRENT on my T40 specifically for > > Atheros support which works well on my built-in A/B card. > > aiiii! so i *did* screw up. blech. > > i will give it another go in some weeks when i have time again. > > randy > The major problems I had were: 1) hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range="1" stopped the panic on startup From: http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~trep/tsrT40freebsd.html 2) There was a CDROM corruption bug unknown when I was trying to install -current. It would boot, but the installation would fail for weird reasons. As a last shot, I installed 5.1-RELEASE (which didn't have the bug) and upgraded from there. It's fixed now, so a simple boot from snapshot should do the trick (or better yet, 5.2-BETA ISO). Jeff __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/