From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 24 22:23:41 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E64616A4CE for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 22:23:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from diamond.34sp.com (diamond.34sp.com [195.50.105.81]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FF1443D41 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 22:23:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from list@understudy.net) Received: (qmail 86711 invoked from network); 24 Feb 2005 22:23:38 -0000 Received: from adsl-11-166-118.mia.bellsouth.net (HELO ?10.0.0.124?) (65.11.166.118) by mcp.34sp.com with SMTP; 24 Feb 2005 22:23:38 -0000 Message-ID: <421E5404.9060902@understudy.net> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 17:24:04 -0500 From: Understudy User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050206 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org References: <20050219040357.47106754@spadger.best.vwh.net> <42197CA3.7050709@understudy.net> <421E331C.10804@siol.net> In-Reply-To: <421E331C.10804@siol.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Thinkpad 600e interrupt storm X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 22:23:41 -0000 Karel Miklav wrote: > Understudy wrote: > >> Well this weekend has been one disaster after another. > > > I wasted couple of months configuring my TP 600E. However, I was > determined to get a notebook with FreBSD and I was willing to > sacrifice some resources. You should probably take a break now and > think about how much does it mean to you. Then if you decide not to > give up, reset the BIOS, reset your BIOS and don't forget to reset the > BIOS then start systematically playing with PS2. Check out Linux sites > with TP600E info, there is a Debian guy who's figured it out. And yea, > your notebook will never be fully functional under FreeBSD, do you > realize that? > > -- > > Regards, > Karel Miklav > > Yeah I definitely needed to take a step back from working on it. I decided as a stress releaver to close down a few orphanages, rip the wings off of flies, and pour salt on slugs. I will go back into it and try again. The problem is the paperwork doesn't show how to do a reset on the BIOS and closing down IRQs on this type of BIOS is not an easy thing if you are not familiar with it. I am not and I fear causing some of the very problems I had happen. I was able to finally get it back to where it was where I am still getting my interrupt storms same as before. Except I had to get a Different NIC as it would no longer work with my previous NIC. And yea, your notebook will never be fully functional under FreeBSD, do you realize that? No I don't . It worked fine under 4.x. It should do the same under 5.x. My knowledge level is low with a high expectation level. It's a dangerous combination but I have faith. I hope that before 5.4 STABLE is released that most of these issues are dealt with. I don't code so I can create the solutions. I can only note the issues and try to implement the solutions suggested by others and report back on my findings. It's a sucky situation but it is my way to contribute. This thread has been long and the people have been extremely helpful, but it isn't over yet. I want to be able to try to help find a solution to this. I will go back in again this weekend and try the PS2 utility again but I have to admit great nervousnous as I work with this laptop and losing it would suck. It's not a server but it is my main computer for me to work with. I still believe that there should be an easier answer than having to use the PS2 utility but I don't know how to write one. Sincerely, Brendhan