From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 6 15:26:22 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8333437B401 for ; Tue, 6 May 2003 15:26:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.eecis.udel.edu (louie.udel.edu [128.4.40.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDED743FA3 for ; Tue, 6 May 2003 15:26:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ladha@mail.eecis.udel.edu) Received: by mail.eecis.udel.edu (Postfix, from userid 62) id 4001E32946; Tue, 6 May 2003 18:26:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from stimpy.eecis.udel.edu (stimpy.eecis.udel.edu [128.4.40.17]) by mail.eecis.udel.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7ED34328C0; Tue, 6 May 2003 18:26:20 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 18:26:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Sourabh Ladha X-X-Sender: To: Mike Dean In-Reply-To: <20030506204948.GA10809@evertek.net> Message-ID: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.0 required=6.0 tests=DEPT_RCVD,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, SPAM_PHRASE_02_03,USER_AGENT_PINE version=2.43 X-Spam-Level: X-Sanitizer: This message has been sanitized! X-Sanitizer-URL: http://mailtools.anomy.net/ X-Sanitizer-Rev: UDEL-ECECIS: Sanitizer.pm,v 1.64 2002/10/22 MIME-Version: 1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset="US-ASCII" cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gateway and FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 22:26:22 -0000 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 [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: at driver 31.3 (no driver attached) > > * pci0: 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. >