Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 01:04:04 -0800 From: Peter Losher <plosher-keyword-freebsd.a36e57@plosh.net> To: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: HP Pavilion ze4400 and 5.1-RELEASE Message-ID: <200312020104.04795.plosher@plosh.net>
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Hi - I am debugging a colleague's new laptop, a HP Pavilion ze4400 running FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE. It's been a interesting experience, having to turn off ACPI to allow the touchpad to work, but the side effect is the on-board NIC (a NatSemi running under the sis driver) refuses to run at startup; it's waiting for a 'watchdog timeout'. I can run dhclient manually and all is then well, but it's suffice to say a minor annoyance. All of that would be moot if I could get the PCMCIA wireless card to work. I purchased a Airlink+ PCMCIA card at Fry's (it's the only 16bit PC Card 802.11b card they sell these days, although they do keep a heady supply) It's a fine, if ugly, card - It's using a Prism v2.5 chipset, and works fine on my production laptop (Dell Inspiron 5100) under the wi driver. However, any PC Card you stick in the slot causes the whole system to freeze.... hard. I have tried all the tricks I used on this Dell, turning on hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range, but to no avail. Does anyone here have a recent HP Pavilion laptop, and if so, how did you get your wireless card to work? Best Wishes - Peter -- [ http://www.plosh.net/ ] - "Earth Halted: Please reboot to continue"
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