From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 20 06:09:18 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A173737B401; Sun, 20 Apr 2003 06:09:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scuzzy.ben.algroup.co.uk (pc252.siliconnetwork.co.uk [194.205.132.252]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAB1B43F75; Sun, 20 Apr 2003 06:09:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@algroup.co.uk) Received: from algroup.co.uk (wiese.ben.algroup.co.uk [193.133.15.150]) by scuzzy.ben.algroup.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F71E8B891; Sun, 20 Apr 2003 13:09:15 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <3EA29BFB.9040702@algroup.co.uk> Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 14:09:15 +0100 From: Ben Laurie User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-GB; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ruslan Ermilov References: <3EA28393.5020409@algroup.co.uk> <20030420114235.GA52124@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <20030420114235.GA52124@sunbay.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.74.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: Laptop update... X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 13:09:19 -0000 Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 12:25:07PM +0100, Ben Laurie wrote: >>The onboard WiFi doesn't work (Intersil Prism2.5) - its recognised, but >>it won't associate. An old Lucent WaveLAN (with recent flash) card works >>fine, however. >> > > I've got mine working by setting hw.cbb.start_memory=0xd8000 in > /boot/loader.conf (or at run-time using sysctl(8)). This is on > ThinkPad 600X. I'll try that. >>But most importantly, perhaps, when I do: >> >>portupgrade -Rra >> >>it almost never completes, because I get coredumps in cc (and >>occasionally weirder symptoms, like illegal instructions). I know this >>is usually attributed to RAM, but I've tried swapping that out - so, >>what else can I fiddle with that might affect this (and the other >>problems)? More info available on demand, of course. >> > > Replace your RAM. As I said, I've already done that, without change. > That may explain the X crashes too. I got > mine working without problems with 4.3.0, the NeoMagic driver > has even grew the X-Video extension in this version! X doesn't crash, it just won't come back once the screen has powersaved. Cheers, Ben. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.thebunker.net/ "There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit." - Robert Woodruff