From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 16 17:31:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6755237B419 for ; Sun, 16 Dec 2001 17:31:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 12745 invoked by uid 0); 17 Dec 2001 01:31:04 -0000 Received: from tk212017108240.univie.teleweb.at (HELO Deadcell.ANT) (212.17.108.240) by mail.gmx.net (mp008-rz3) with SMTP; 17 Dec 2001 01:31:04 -0000 Received: (from ant@localhost) by Deadcell.ANT (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBH0aCo02017; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 01:36:12 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ant) Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 01:36:12 +0100 From: Andreas Ntaflos To: Cliff Sarginson Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Laptop time...advice sought Message-ID: <20011217013612.A81105@Deadcell.ANT> Mail-Followup-To: Cliff Sarginson , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20011216200410.GA2954@raggedclown.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011216200410.GA2954@raggedclown.net>; from cliff@raggedclown.net on Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 09:04:10PM +0100 Platform: FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE Hostname: Deadcell.ANT 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 Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 09:04:10PM +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > The ones I have seen are either Asus's or Asus's inside with another > name on the outside. > > I would guess the questions boil down to chipset and PCMIA support. > I know I have ran into problems with pci interrupt routing or whatever this is called. The 4.4 release notes state that this can be workarounded using ISA interrupt routing. I think this is quite a common gotcha with new laptops, and my Satellite 3000-100 gave me a hell of a ride with this :) A strange thing was that it would always freeze during boot when initializing the pcic/cardbus, even if I did like the release notes re- commend and put set hw.pcic.intr_path="1" and set hw.pcic.irq="0" at the boot loader. The laptop runs win2k and FreeBSD 4.4 now smoothly, I think I solved these freeze-problems by completely installing windows first and install every neccessary driver for everything the laptop had (Intel chipset update, pcmcia bus, etc etc). I don't know exactly what made the problem go away, but I am sure it has something to do with the drivers. Besides that, there is nothing I could think of. It still is a bumpy ride to get FreeBSD running on a laptop however. regards -- Andreas "ant" Ntaflos ntaflos.andreas@gmx.net Vienna, AUSTRIA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message