Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 14:42:48 -0700 From: Bill Schoolcraft <bill@linuxcare.com> To: david@metalogik.com, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on a Dell Inspiron 8000 Message-ID: <3B0D8058.AE02D506@linuxcare.com> References: <20010524151421.13608.cpmta@c001.snv.cp.net> <3B0D62E1.22802810@linuxcare.com>
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Bill Schoolcraft wrote: > > 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 > Here is the utility, it's called PHDISK.EXE http://support.dell.com/us/en/filelib/download/index.asp?fileid=R24475&sid=&os=Windows_NT&searchtype=age -- 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
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