From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 26 16:29:30 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1792716A4CE for ; Sat, 26 Jun 2004 16:29:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from phoenix.gargantuan.com (rrcs-se-24-73-171-238.biz.rr.com [24.73.171.238]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94CD243D1D for ; Sat, 26 Jun 2004 16:29:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@gargantuan.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.gargantuan.com [127.0.0.1]) by spamassassin-injector (Postfix) with SMTP id 772621F8; Sat, 26 Jun 2004 12:29:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: by phoenix.gargantuan.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 81EF9175; Sat, 26 Jun 2004 12:28:48 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 12:28:48 -0400 From: "Michael W. Oliver" To: Robert Storey Message-ID: <20040626162848.GC53891@gargantuan.com> Mail-Followup-To: Robert Storey , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20040626143912.24ea4d67.y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ew6BAiZeqk4r7MaW" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040626143912.24ea4d67.y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> X-WWW-Site: http://michael.gargantuan.com X-PGP-Public-Key: $X-WWW-Site/gnupg/pubkey.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 2694 0179 AE3F BFAE 0916 0BF5 B16B FBAB C5FA A3C9 X-Home-Phone: +1-863-816-8091 X-Mobile-Phone: +1-863-738-2334 X-Home-Address0: 8008 Apache Lane X-Home-Address1: Lakeland, FL X-Home-Address2: 33810-2172 X-Home-Address3: United States of America X-Good-Question-Guide: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html X-Netiquette-Guidelines: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Spam-DCC: : X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on phoenix.gargantuan.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,NO_DNS_FOR_FROM autolearn=no version=2.63 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Centrino - Made for Microsoft Windows XP? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 16:29:30 -0000 --ew6BAiZeqk4r7MaW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable [please wrap your lines at <80 chars; 72 would be very nice] On 2004-06-26T14:39:12+0800, Robert Storey wrote: > I recently purchased a new laptop, an IBM X31 ThinkPad, which uses the > Centrino processor. I had high expectations for this machine. >=20 > Alas, my expectations have been shattered. All attempts at installing > FreeBSD 5.2.1 quickly end with a crash. Interestingly, I have an old > FBSD 4.8 CD - that installs fine. Lest anybody think my 5.2.1 CDR is > bad, I went and downloaded it a second time, plus I also tried a > network install. Failure every time. >=20 First, I would suggest posting this message to the mobile@ list, as you will surely get more hits over there. Second, I remember quite a few people talking about 5.2.1 on ThinkPads, and having to set the following in /boot/loader.conf: hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range=3D"1" I hope that this helps. --=20 Mike perl -e 'print unpack("u","88V]N=3D&%C=3D\"!I;F9O(&EN(&AE861E