From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 23 23:15:32 2003 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 16EAE37B401 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2003 23:15:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30A8543F93 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2003 23:15:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 0AAA0526B2; Thu, 24 Jul 2003 15:45:27 +0930 (CST) Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 15:45:27 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Joe Marcus Clarke Message-ID: <20030724061526.GI5448@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <1059025604.79467.44.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="UD9uuWeujuEvWfkY" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1059025604.79467.44.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron 5150 and PCMCIA lock ups 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 Jul 2003 06:15:32 -0000 --UD9uuWeujuEvWfkY Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday, 24 July 2003 at 1:46:44 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > I just got a new Dell Inspiron 5150 thinking it would be a nice > replacement for my 8100. So far, I'm not impressed. The BroadCom > BCM440x ethernet controller isn't supported, and everytime I insert a > PCMCIA card, the machine locks. Heh. Ditto, s/5150/5100/ > I'm running 5.1-RELEASE, but I want to move to -CURRENT if I can get > a network connection. Basically, if the machine is up and running, > and I insert the card, it locks (no console messages, nothing). The > only solution is to hold the power button down until the machine > shuts down. If I have the card inserted at boot time, the machine > gets to: > > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad2s3a > > Then locks up the same way. > > ... I have tried NEWCARD and OLDCARD. I am > > I'm really hoping there's some hope here. So far, the only good news is > that sound works. Thanks for any advice you may offer. You're a little ahead of me here. I'm still backing up the disk contents. Knoppix (Linux) doesn't recognize the Broadcomm card, but it does initialize the PCMCIA card OK. Duncan Barclay has a beta driver for the Broadcomm card. See http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mobile/2003-July/001109.html for more details. Also, I've been given a pointer to a Linux page, http://cabibbo.physics.wm.edu/~bryan/computer/inspiron5100.html, which I haven't read yet. I think the way I'm going to go is: 1. Install 5.0-RELEASE (because that's what I have on CD-ROM). 2. Move the -CURRENT sources, including Broadcomm driver, to the box (probably via CD-R). 3. Take it from there. If anybody has some other suggestions, I'd be pleased to hear them. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers --UD9uuWeujuEvWfkY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/H3l+IubykFB6QiMRApS0AJ4xhLZ6hCk1AwHCo7mFK0NG45QY7wCeNYmo 04ntEswIF4MPLdfJ6Mc6k9U= =/7Ez -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --UD9uuWeujuEvWfkY--