From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 3 5:27:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C3E337B401 for ; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 05:27:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (bgm-24-94-58-56.stny.rr.com [24.94.58.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAD4543E4A for ; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 05:27:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from syborg@stny.rr.com) Received: by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix, from userid 507) id 0A36F4FC9B; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 08:26:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 029834A0E; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 08:26:26 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 08:26:26 -0400 (EDT) From: John Bleichert X-X-Sender: syborg@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org Reply-To: John Bleichert To: Gershon Shif Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Laptop is crashing while istalling In-Reply-To: <20021003033810.19970.qmail@web14805.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Gershon Shif wrote: > Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 20:38:10 -0700 (PDT) > From: Gershon Shif > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Laptop is crashing while istalling > > Hi, > I am trying to install FreeBSD on DELL laptop. > After configuring kernel I confirm savings and message > pops up: > "Found PC-card slot(s) > Use PC-card device as installation media > YES NO" > > My keyboard is not responding anymore. > Thanks > I had this happen once and it was due to a pc-card in one of the slots. The card took some system fiddling (IRQs) to get it to work *after* the system was installed. I was able to get around the problem by running the installer with both pc-card slots empty and then fscking with the pc-card later. After you get the box installed, you'll probably find that when you insert the pc-card, the display will freeze, and it will un-freeze as soon as you eject the pc-card. Some resource fiddling will cure this. Note that it's probably not your keyboard that's freezing, it's your display, as they are probably attempting to use the same IRQ (11?). If this doesn't help check out the archives in freebsd-mobile. HTH - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message