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Date:      Thu, 29 Mar 2001 04:29:24 -0800 (PST)
From:      Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org>
To:        "Viren R.Shah" <viren@cigital.com>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Dell Latitude c800 w/ Xircom Realport card
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10103290428050.82988-100000@moo.sysabend.org>
In-Reply-To: <15042.24125.990694.142942@jabberwock.cigital.com>

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On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Viren R.Shah wrote:

:
:[Please cc me on replies]
:
:I'm trying to install 4.3-RC (2001/03/28) onto a Dell Latitude c800
:that has a Xircom RealPort card in it.
:
:I can't even boot it up in order to get to the main sysinstall
:screen. As soon as it boots up, it asks "Should I use the pcic
:controller as an install device" (or words to that effect) and
:freezes. 
:
:Has anyone managed to install FreeBSD on such a beast?

Remove the card(s) before you install.  Don't reinsert until after you
have installed and rebuilt the kernel explicitly giving pcic0 an IRQ.

Jamie Bowden

-- 
"It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold"
Hunter S Tolkien "Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur"
Iain Bowen <alaric@alaric.org.uk>



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