Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 12:14:44 -0700 From: Edwin Culp <eculp@EnContacto.Net> To: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Compaq 1701 problems with sound and nic. Message-ID: <995742884.3b59d4a4b882c@Mail.SavvyWorld.Net>
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I finally found what I think was a good buy in a laptop, a compaq 1701 PIII 850, 30 GB, 256 MB, 14" 1024x768, 5 lbs for $1,600.
Out of the box I installed current, and with my trusty, three year old 2Mb Lucent Wavelan pcmcia card, cvsuped, built world, installed XFree86-4 with no problems. Now that the important stuff is working, I've still got a couple of minor issues.
I can't see my sound card that according to the docs is an "ess alegro".
I have tried the device pcm, pcm + sbc in my kernel config and can't even get an error
message :-( cat /dev/sndstat shows no installed devices and
pnpinfo responds with "No Plug-n-Play devices were found"
I am also not able to get the compaq 100/10 nic to respond. It seems to want
to be an SMC card but I'm not sure. I get the following in my dmesg
sn0: ioaddr is 0x300
sn0: test1 failed
Does anyone have any suggestions or have a similar compaq with sound and/or
NIC?
I'm really quite glad that I bought it even if sound and NIC don't work. An hour and 15 minute make world is a big improvement over my old k-6's almost 6 hours. A 30 gig hard drive beats 6 gig, as does 256M ram.
thanks,
ed
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