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Date:      Fri, 11 May 2001 08:42:25 -0700
From:      "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
To:        "Masanori Nakahara" <masa@cs.washington.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Inspiron 2100 
Message-ID:  <200105111542.f4BFgPc29511@ptavv.es.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 10 May 2001 19:38:57 PDT." <031501c0d9c3$874a7db0$33025f80@cseresearch.cs.washington.edu> 

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> From: "Masanori Nakahara" <masa@cs.washington.edu>
> Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 19:38:57 -0700
> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> 
>   Does anyone try to install FreeBSD to Dell Inspiron 2100
>   notebook? I tried 4.3-Release. However, if pcmcia slot is
>   used, it freeze during booting. 
>   Give me information. 

I can't speak to this specific notebook, but there are a couple of
common issues that come up over and over.

First, some systems seem to have trouble with polling mode on the
PCIC. The GENERIC kernel used polling mode. Try building a new
kernel with the line for "device pcic0" changed from irq 0 to irq
10. (10 is very commonly used for PCIC.)

The other common problem is io memory collision. Try changing the
iomem value for pcic0 from 0xd0000 to 0xd4000 or 0xd8000.

Good luck,

R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634

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