From owner-freebsd-mobile Sat Oct 24 12:09:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA02023 for freebsd-mobile-outgoing; Sat, 24 Oct 1998 12:09:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles209.castles.com [208.214.165.209]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA02018 for ; Sat, 24 Oct 1998 12:09:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA05614; Sat, 24 Oct 1998 12:13:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199810241913.MAA05614@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Glen cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Acer 367T and FreeBSD In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 21 Oct 1998 11:09:11 +1000." <19981021110911.47407@alzarius.its.rmit.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 12:13:18 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Has anyone managed to get FreeBSD working on an Acer 367T notebook? Sounds like the answer is "no". 8) > The problem seems to be the cardbus controller which is a O2Micro 6833 > (according to O2Micro). It is a pin-compatible replacement for the 6832, > but there must be some tiny differences. Do you have documentation for the device by any chance? > The patches supplied by Mathias and Nate for FreeBSD v2.2.6 went as far as > the cardbus controller being recognised as an O2 Micro device, but that was > about it. It's likely that the device needs some tweaking to put it into pcic emulation mode. Does the BIOS offer any options to set the mode it operates in? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message