From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 23 11:19:54 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DF5E16A4CE for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2004 11:19:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail3.speakeasy.net (mail3.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.203]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A32E643D6A for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2004 11:18:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 11134 invoked from network); 23 Jan 2004 19:15:26 -0000 Received: from dsl027-160-063.atl1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) encrypted SMTP for ; 23 Jan 2004 19:15:26 -0000 Received: from 10.50.40.205 (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i0NJF8M0030658; Fri, 23 Jan 2004 14:15:13 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) From: John Baldwin To: Muthu_T@Dell.com, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 13:56:16 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <136A7C767A0679488C4642731C2186E00262D5@blrx2kmbgl301.blr.amer.dell.com> In-Reply-To: <136A7C767A0679488C4642731C2186E00262D5@blrx2kmbgl301.blr.amer.dell.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200401231356.16946.jhb@FreeBSD.org> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) Subject: Re: 5.2 on DELL m/c's X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 19:19:54 -0000 On Friday 23 January 2004 12:27 am, Muthu_T@Dell.com wrote: > I had installed 5.2 Release on couple of Dell machines. > It works fine on all the systems. (but some dhclient error messages > thrown on console often). > > In older machines (like PE4300) it works only if we disabled ACPI. > But in new machines (PE1750, PE1650) it works fine by default(with > ACPI). > > All RAID and BroadCom network drivers are working fine. > > So if anything needs to be tested on Dell Machines please let me know. > I will do it in my spare time. > > But I cannot install 5.2 via USB CDROM. Anybody have any ideas? That last might have been fixed (workaround for a BIOS bug) after 5.2 was released. There's not a workaround to make it work though. What kind of problems do you have on the older machines with ACPI? -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org