From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu May 24 12:36: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mail.linuxcare.com (mail.linuxcare.com [167.216.222.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDEC637B422 for ; Thu, 24 May 2001 12:36:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bill@linuxcare.com) Received: from linuxcare.com (lnxc-1760.i.linuxcare.com [10.160.70.224]) by mail.linuxcare.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1422843FBD2; Thu, 24 May 2001 12:35:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3B0D62E1.22802810@linuxcare.com> Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 12:37:05 -0700 From: Bill Schoolcraft Organization: "Linux, A Way of Life." X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: david@metalogik.com, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on a Dell Inspiron 8000 References: <20010524151421.13608.cpmta@c001.snv.cp.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 david@metalogik.com wrote: > > I had tried running 4.2-release on an i8k and had > problems with suspend/resume freaking out the fxp > device (intel etherexpress nic, built in) and was > unable to get any pcmcia cards to work (locked up > whenever one was inserted or if it was detected at > boot)... > > I am grabbing the iso for 4.3 hoping that perhaps some > of those things will now work. has anyone had any > success getting an i8k working with suspend/resume and > an 802.11 pcmcia card working? > > cheers, > david j harding - david@metalogik.com > metalogik industries > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message I do support for those laptops and there is a special partition for the "suspend to disk" activity and here is the output of "fdisk -l /dev/hda" on a DELL Linux install. They have a floppy disk utility that will create this for you but not where you see it here, the floppy creates it at the bottome of the drive so you have to reverse layout the partitions. You have to run the utility "PRIOR" to the install. Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1222 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 29 420 3148740 83 Linux /dev/hda2 1 26 208813+ 84 OS/2 hidden C: drive /dev/hda3 * 421 423 24097+ 83 Linux /dev/hda4 424 1222 6417967+ 5 Extended /dev/hda5 424 1197 6217123+ 83 Linux /dev/hda6 1198 1222 200781 82 Linux swap -- Bill Schoolcraft Linux/Unix Support Engineer 650 Townsend Street San Francisco, CA 94103 SF (415) 354-4878 http://www.linuxcare.com "LINUX, A Way Of Life." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message