From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 10 03:24:28 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 295F416A418 for ; Sat, 10 Nov 2007 03:24:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ron@bouncebk.com) Received: from smtpout04-01.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net (smtpout04-01.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net [64.202.165.196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5169013C4A5 for ; Sat, 10 Nov 2007 03:24:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ron@bouncebk.com) Received: (qmail 11526 invoked from network); 10 Nov 2007 02:57:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (24.163.241.91) by smtpout04-04.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net (64.202.165.199) with ESMTP; 10 Nov 2007 02:57:37 -0000 Message-ID: <47351E05.7010609@bouncebk.com> Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 20:57:09 -0600 From: McCy Ron User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Questions References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Install problems on Dell Vostro X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: mccyron@kc.rr.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 03:24:28 -0000 Jerahmy Pocott wrote: > Hello, > > I'm having difficulties getting 6.2 installed on these new Dell > 'Vostro' systems. > > The BIOS is a Phoenix - AwardBIOS and it reports the version as 1.0.3. > > With the SATA controller set to IDE mode (default) in the BIOS > booting FreeBSD > will hang just before entering sysinstall, booting with ACPI disabled > stops this > but then no disk drives are found! I got around this by setting the > SATA mode to > RAID in the BIOS (this seems to make the disk appear as SCSI), then > it doesn't > crash with ACPI enabled (with ACPI disabled no disks are found still) > and the > disk is found. > > The system only has USB inputs (8 of them) and with the USB > Controller set > to 'High Speed' in the BIOS, the keyboard stops working once > sysinstall starts > (though it works in the boot menu), however setting it to 'Full/Low > Speed' makes > it work in sysinstall. I probably don't care about using High Speed > USB devices > any way, but it would be nice if they could work, but this isn't the > major issue. > > Now finally I can get into sysinstall and partition the disk, but the > network interface > is not detected. It says it is an 'Intel 82562V-2' (on board), but I > see no probes about > it on booting FreeBSD. Is this interface supported? Any ideas on > getting it detected? > > I feel the ACPI might be a problem? On booting it is reported as > 'ACPI: Dell FX 09' > > Thanks! > J. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > I was able to get 6.2 to install on a Vostro with stock BIOS settings but couldn't get the system to recognize the network card. network. Just for reference - Knoppix, Ubuntu, FreesBie live CDs, and a straight install of Ubuntu 7.04 didn't work either. There is something strange about this computer.....Windows XP, ofcourse, works.