Hi, I just got me a brand new Dell Inspiron 9400 Notebook, Intel Dual Core. I installed 1.9-Devel without problems, but noticed the keyboard rsp. console freezes with ACPI enabled.
Not a big deal, though, booting without ACPI enabled does the trick, but what really bothers me: when I try to" ifconfig UP" the internal network card (Broadcom Chipset), the whole system freezes immediately. The same holds true after starting dhclient; in fact, any attempt to UP bfe0 causes a freeze. I admit I was too lazy to check this group if this is a known issue, so if it is, maybe somebody can point me in the right direction. As far as I glanced through the topics, I believe it might be related to interrupt routing...? I flashed the Notbook with the latest available BIOS (A09), but still everything freezes as soon as the network card gets involved (tried 1.9-Devel & 1.8.1-REL). Anyway, if this is not a known issue, I can provide any dump files that might help solve this annoying problem, just let me know what you need & what else I can do/try. Thanx in advance --j P.S. I tried the whole common variety of things-to-try, like disabling dual-core in BIOS, etc. without success.
