Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 18:26:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Sourabh Ladha <ladha@mail.eecis.udel.edu> To: Mike Dean <klaatu@evertek.net> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gateway and FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.33.0305061823320.20513-100000@stimpy.eecis.udel.edu> In-Reply-To: <20030506204948.GA10809@evertek.net>
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Thanks for the email Mike. I tried doing what you had suggested but didn't have any luck. I get stuck at the same place and the machine freezes. SOS: What else could I do? Waiting for a reply, Sourabh On Tue, 6 May 2003, Mike Dean wrote: > * Sourabh Ladha <ladha@mail.eecis.udel.edu> [2003-05-05 22:56]: > > I was trying to get FreeBSD 5.0 Release on my just bought Gateway Laptop > > (400x). unfortunately it seems there are lot of broken sides...One of the > > hardware that I could not find support was for my IDE controller > > (Intel 82801CAM): > > > * pci0: <serial bus, SMBus> at driver 31.3 (no driver attached) > > * pci0: <simple comms> at device 31.6 (no driver attached) > > > Unfortunately, I just can't proceed from this. > > It would be nice to know exactly what you're seeing from this. However, > I did have some significant problems with my Gateway 450L about at this > point when I was trying to install, so I'll go out on a limb and > speculate that this is the same problem (a page fault in the PCI code > was what I was dealing with). This problem, incidentally, has nothing > to do with the IDE controller (Intel 82801CAM, which appears to be some > kind of unified bus control chip, is supported on my system). > > Maybe someone else can fill me in as to why, but the Gateway requires a > tweak to the kernel environment in order to boot. The following > assignment needs to be made: > > hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range="1" > > To do this, when you are booting the install disk, and it says "Press > [ENTER] to boot immediately, any other key for command prompt", press > another key (space works nicely). Then, run the following commands: > > set hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range="1" > boot > > The machine will then (hopefully) boot (I never had any problems after > figuring this out). This must be repeated each bootup; once you have > the system installed and running, put the following at the top of your > /boot/loader.conf: > > hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range="1" > > and the tweak will be applied automatically. It should then boot and > operate properly. >
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