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From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org>
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Subject: Re: Any success stories with Dell Inspiron 4100?
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On Sunday 25 November 2001 21:05, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> On 26-Nov-2001 Greg Lehey wrote:
> >  I don't know about the 4100, but other members of the Inspiron family
> >  tend to work pretty well.
>
> Hmm.. I have access to an i2500 and it hangs on boot with FreeBSD 4.4 (in
> probe).
> I forget exactly where, but I should be getting around to filling a bug
> report sometime soon about it :)

Does it ever recover?  This happened to a friend of mine with an i8000 
(though it never happens with mine), but only *some* of the time.  He built a 
minimal kernel (that is, one that only includes hardware that he actually 
has) (I can send you mine if you want as a starting place; it should be 
pretty close) and now all is fine as it's only probing for devices that are 
actually present..

>
> ---
> Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
> for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
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> are so many of them to choose from."
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