From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 21 05:02:25 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org 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 C158516A400 for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2006 05:02:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from disposable42-fm@yahoo.com) Received: from web52515.mail.yahoo.com (web52515.mail.yahoo.com [206.190.48.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 456FA43D45 for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2006 05:02:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from disposable42-fm@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 74660 invoked by uid 60001); 21 Mar 2006 05:02:24 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=bp/YTde8Cn7PQdRh/ipaL9r3IceqafZz4khrmS2DRMeLn5cLD1JinJJ7CiAECKo6tUyqrKpoyrp1IXtB83AEOB9yGDbMTeQU2wP0LF2RX1lu/L5HH1cfk61mg7v+flhhMbOJgRttondXaJTGox9eE+OIiQdKGqejbnQ9LAVe/0w= ; Message-ID: <20060321050224.74658.qmail@web52515.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [60.231.180.210] by web52515.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 21 Mar 2006 16:02:24 EST Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 16:02:24 +1100 (EST) From: To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <200603201331.40529.jhb@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: CD device no longer works in new FreeBSD releases? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: disposable42-fm@yahoo.com List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 05:02:25 -0000 --- John Baldwin wrote: > On Friday 17 March 2006 22:47, disposable42-fm@yahoo.com wrote: > > --- John Baldwin wrote: > > > > > On Wednesday 15 March 2006 05:10, disposable42-fm@yahoo.com wrote: > > > > Hi guys, > > > > > > > > Not sure if this is the right place for this question, but I've > been > > > trying > > > > to get FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE working on a laptop, a Compaq Armada > V300. > > > > I boot the installation off the CD drive, go through the setup > process > > > > fine, but when I have to choose the installation method, it reports > `No > > > CD > > > > devices found!'. Disabling ACPI didn't do anything, either. > > > > I remembered I had an old FreeBSD 4.10 disk lying around, so I gave > > > that a > > > > go as a last resort, and lo and behold, it worked- it installed > > > everything > > > > off the first CD. Haven't tried 5.x, I assume the latest release > would > > > > support the most hardware. > > > > > > > > Were some drivers removed after 4.x, or isn't the installer > detecting > > > the > > > > CDROM? Is there any way to fix this, or should I stick to 4.x (or, > eek, > > > > Linux)? It's a `CRN-8241B' if that helps, but anything that turns > up on > > > > Google seems to be about 4.x, and works fine. > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks in advance, but apologies if I've posted to the wrong place. > > > > > > Would you be able to capture the dmesg from the 6.0 kernel using a > > > serial console or some other means? Also, would you be able to > provide > > > a dmesg from the 4.x kernel? > > Okay, sorry for the late reply, had to source a DB9 cable (had > everything > > /but/). I found it interesting that while 4.10 finds my pccard, it > doesn't > > find the Xircom ethernet card, but 6.0-R does (as well as ACPI > support). > > > > Anyway, in the 4.10 output, you can see on line 87-88 it finds ad0 & > acd0, > > but on 6.0 it only finds ad0. > > I don't see anything obvious. Perhaps try asking sos@ as he maintains > the > ATA drivers? Thanks for trying, I'll forward this to sos@ (Søren?), see if he knows. ____________________________________________________ On Yahoo!7 Messenger - Make free PC-to-PC calls to your friends overseas. http://au.messenger.yahoo.com