From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Sep 26 1:30:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from dltimothy.net (mail.dobox.com [208.187.122.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E00C37B416 for ; Wed, 26 Sep 2001 01:30:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dlt by dltimothy.net with local (Exim 3.16 #1) id 15mA4x-0002NN-00 for freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 26 Sep 2001 02:30:03 -0600 Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 02:30:03 -0600 From: Denver Timothy To: f-mobile Subject: Re: (short story) dell inspiron 5000e & panic inducing keyboard loss Message-ID: <20010926023002.C518@mail.freeshell.org> Mail-Followup-To: f-mobile References: <20010925230216.A32360@moo.holy.cow> <200109260755.f8Q7ts765629@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200109260755.f8Q7ts765629@harmony.village.org>; from imp@harmony.village.org on Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 01:55:54AM -0600 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 Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 01:55:54AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <20010925230216.A32360@moo.holy.cow> parv writes: > : has anybody experienced a temporary loss of keyboard on a laptop? > : i did. this is my story (sorry dick wolf). > > Yes. Some pccards run at high SPL levels in their probe/attach > routines that give the appearance of a hang. The an driver, to pick > on one, does this. I've had similar experiences. Except not until about two weeks ago. I can't think of anything I'm doing different. If I remeber correctly, it always happens, for no apparent reason, at work while I'm plugged into: ep0: <3Com Etherlink III 3C589> at port 0x240-0x24f irq 3 slot 1 on pccard1 > : yesterday night while i had been trying to beat my own score of > : xpuzzletama on my dell i5000e, the keyboard suddenly stopped : > working. > > That's odd. I have a Dell Inspiron 5000 too. Not the 'e' though. > : after fiddling w/ windows, i closed the computer & waited for next > : morning to experiment w/ freebsd... if necessary. and, when i tried in > : freebsd again, system behaved as if there were no problems... fsck run > : not withstanding. > > Now that's strange... If I turn mine off, and then immediately back on, I still have the same problem-- even in the boot manager. I have to turn it off and pull the A/C and the battery and let it sit for a while. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Denver Timothy \|/ @ @ "I like Windows because I can download FreeBSD with it." -oOO-(_)-OOo-------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message