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Date:      Tue, 20 Mar 2001 03:36:11 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matt Groener <root@groenquist.com>
To:        Dennis Reiter <denny@reiters.org>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Dell Latitude C600
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103200325070.6360-100000@joliet.groenquist.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010319140556.B83749@reiters.org>

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I had no luck whatsoever with 4.x (RELEASE,STABLE,BETA) on C600, so
I switched to 5.0-CURRENT. Works fine, even cardbus support works
ok (using 3com xl cardbus card). It's very much a moving target
(I rebuild daily to keep up on changes), but has been usable so
far.

My install was definitely non-standard:
1. Installed 4.2-RELEASE from CD w/o PCCARD support of any kind
   (disable everything you can).
2. Got box up without PCCARD support (wouldn't hang, but not usable).
3. Burned /usr/src from 5.0-CURRENT onto CD and copied over /usr/src.
4. Make buildworld, kernel, installworld. (build takes 132 minutes)
5. Box worked on 5.0-CURRENT.
6. Tweaked NEWCARD config to my liking, mostly ripped out fluff.
7. Now supports both cardbus cards and Dell Dock NIC's (not at same
   time, because I am lazy and never want this option).

I am following the posts on -mobile, cvs-all, and -stable for a chance
to try my hand at 4.3-BETA again. Without cardbus, though, I probably
won't be happy without 5.0-CURRENT.

One last note: I had no luck with XFree86 3.3.6; use port or packages
install for 4.0.[23] and you should be fine.

Let me know if you want to see my kernel config or my XF86Config, and
I will post them privately.

Cheers,
-matt 

On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Dennis Reiter wrote:

> I installed 4.2 Release from the CDs onto my Dell Latitude C600
> this weekend, but I'm having troubles.  I can't boot if I have a
> PCMCIA card inserted, or if I insert a card after booting up, the
> machine freezes.
> 
> I successfully installed 4.2 onto an Inspiron 7500 and it runs like
> a champ.  I mainly needed the Lucent Wavelan card to work and with
> a couple of wicontrol tweaks, it does.
> 
> Here's snippets from dmesg of each machine.  Has anybody else had
> these problems/ made it work?
> 


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