From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue May 2 11:19:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75A0337BC46 for ; Tue, 2 May 2000 11:19:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rooneg@rpi.edu) Received: from cortez.sss.rpi.edu (rooneg@cortez.sss.rpi.edu [128.113.113.33]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA392490; Tue, 2 May 2000 14:19:45 -0400 Received: from localhost (rooneg@localhost) by cortez.sss.rpi.edu (8.8.5/8.8.6) with SMTP id OAA29342; Tue, 2 May 2000 14:19:57 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: cortez.sss.rpi.edu: rooneg owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 14:19:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Rooney X-Sender: rooneg@cortez.sss.rpi.edu To: Jamie Bowden Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Laptop CDROM not recognized by Sysinstall. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I have a Dell Latitude CPx H500 with a slight problem. The machine boots > fine off the 3.4-R CD, but the kernel doesn't find it during probe, and of > course this presents problems for sysinstall. I'd install off the > network, but the xe0 driver isn't in the generic kernel, and I can't move > to 4.0-* since xe0 is currently broken. Anyone have this model of laptop > and been able to get FreeBSD to recognize the CDROM drive? My old > Latitude CPi R400 worked fine, and from what I can tell, this machine is > almost identical excepting processor, video, and sound. > > 4.0-R seems to find the CDROM drive okay. Any ideas? just another data point. i had exactly the same problems with a dell inspiron 3800 and freebsd 3.4. (coincidently enough i was also trying 3.4 because 4.0 doesn't support my Xircom ethernet card) I eventually gave up and went back to 4.0, which installed from cdrom fine. still witing for ethernet though ;-( -garrett x----------------------------------------------------------------------x | rooneg@rpi.edu garrett rooney | | http://www.rpi.edu/~rooneg unix geek | |----------------------------------------------------------------------| | unrequited love is neat because it lasts so much longer - w. t. c. | x----------------------------------------------------------------------x To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message