laptop question...
I'm about to purchase a sager np3880 laptop: http://www.discountlaptops.com/index.php?section=specs&model_id=1176&category_id=&category_theme=c1 and want to know if there might be any problems with the hardware especially the usb and video. Has anyone been able to get wuxga (1900x1200 screen sizes) while running freebsd? I'm in the middle of purchasing new machines and I'm struggling with the concept of running wine so I can run MS Windows apps (ms office access+vba) or should I not bother with freebsd (5.4/6.0) and stick with xp? The video data is PCI Express x16 3D Accelerator 128MB DDR2 PCI-e nVIDIA GeForce Go 6600 Video Memory and what is the experience with power management. I've seen lots of complaints about laptops going to sleep and never waking up... Jeff. -- Jeff D. Hamann Forest Informatics, Inc. PO Box 1421 Corvallis, Oregon 97339-1421 phone 541-754-1428 fax 541-752-0288 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.forestinformatics.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: HP Pavillion laptop work with any version of FreeBSD?
WOB (wayofbsd) writes: > > I posted the error messages to the mobile list, and didn't get a > response - I guess no one has this type of laptop. > > Has anyone had any luck with any version of FreeBSD on any version of HP > Pavillion laptop? Just yesterday, I installed FreeBSD 5.3-REL on the laptop of my colleague. He owns a HP Pavillion DV1000 series. It worked out of the box. Though, we needed to apply a small patch to the i8xx driver, to enable 1280x768 resolution in X. /mich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
HP Pavillion laptop work with any version of FreeBSD?
I have never been able to get through an install of either 5.4 or 6.0 on my HP Pavillion zv5445us laptop. Trying to install 5.4 would poweroff the latop, and 6.0 hangs during the install. I have not tried 4.10, and was hoping I wouldn't have to. I had tried earlier version of 5.x when they were out (5.3 I think). I posted the error messages to the mobile list, and didn't get a response - I guess no one has this type of laptop. Has anyone had any luck with any version of FreeBSD on any version of HP Pavillion laptop? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Laptop questions
Jerry McAllister wrote: in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Jerry McAllister thusly... I have had good success using Partition Magic from PowerQuest to manipulate disk slices including NTFS types. Same here. Unless you are working on a separate disk from the one you are booting the machine you cannot run from the installed copy. To work on the main disk (most likely your case with a laptop), you must make the boot floppies it tells about in the Partition Magic documentation and then boot from them to do the disk slice manipulation. Well, i was able to manipulate the slices while Partition Magic 6.x was running on MS Windows (XP, and probably Me, don't remember about 98), w/o use of floppies or CDs. I could do some things, but not what I needed. Using the floppies made it all work and it was quite straightforward. I was changing slice sizes (shrinking) and slice types. So, ??? jerry - Parv An all windows issue but, word of warning with Partition Magic. I was attempting to merge two slices into one larger with PM versions 7 and version 8, two different PCs (same version MSI MB and Maxtor hdd though, so I'm guessing the issue is one of them) and both failed. All NTFS, WinXP. Be sure to do your backups and whatnot - in both cases the larger second slice was lost completely and backups were the only thing that saved me. Ended up wipe and reload on both. Funny thing is, my boss has reported great success with both versions on various MSI mbs. So, I dunno. Derrill ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Laptop questions
> > in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote > Jerry McAllister thusly... > > > > I have had good success using Partition Magic from PowerQuest to > > manipulate disk slices including NTFS types. > > Same here. > > > > Unless you are working on a separate disk from the one you are > > booting the machine you cannot run from the installed copy. To > > work on the main disk (most likely your case with a laptop), you > > must make the boot floppies it tells about in the Partition Magic > > documentation and then boot from them to do the disk slice > > manipulation. > > Well, i was able to manipulate the slices while Partition Magic 6.x > was running on MS Windows (XP, and probably Me, don't remember about > 98), w/o use of floppies or CDs. I could do some things, but not what I needed. Using the floppies made it all work and it was quite straightforward. I was changing slice sizes (shrinking) and slice types. So, ??? jerry > > - Parv ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Laptop questions
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Jerry McAllister thusly... > > I have had good success using Partition Magic from PowerQuest to > manipulate disk slices including NTFS types. Same here. > Unless you are working on a separate disk from the one you are > booting the machine you cannot run from the installed copy. To > work on the main disk (most likely your case with a laptop), you > must make the boot floppies it tells about in the Partition Magic > documentation and then boot from them to do the disk slice > manipulation. Well, i was able to manipulate the slices while Partition Magic 6.x was running on MS Windows (XP, and probably Me, don't remember about 98), w/o use of floppies or CDs. - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Laptop questions
> > Hey all. > > I'm on the verge of getting myself a laptop. As this is my first > laptop, and I'm rewarding myself for a recent accomplishment, I > figured I'd go all out and get the top of the line Dell. I know, IBM > has some great notebooks, as does Gateway and particularly Apple. I'd > like to get an Apple, but that would be out of line with the reason > I'm rewarding myself. > > Bottom line, I'll need to keep Windows on the system - relevant to the > event for which I'm rewarding myself. Still, I'd really, REALLY like > to get FreeBSD (or some other *BSD) and/or *maybe* a Linux distro on > there as well. The hard drive is going to be a 100G, so I could > probably squeeze at least 2 OSes on without much trouble. Should be no problem. Just read the stuff on dual booting a machine. Make sure you leave the MS install in the original slice. (That is usually first, unless Dell also puts a diagnostic slice on it, then MS would be second slice) It doesn't pay to try to change the position where MS lives. Make sure all the MS install stuff is done first and then install the FreeBSd stuff because MS doesn't respect anything else and will overwrite MBRs and boot sectors and will not boot another system. FreeBSD will both respect other systems and the FreeBSD MBRs will boot any other system. So, install FreeBSD last. You will need to shrink the MS slice (which MS calls a partition) to make room for FreeBSD.IF the MS slice only has FAT type slices, they are are some free utilities that can be used to shrink the MS slice and make room for a FreeBSD slice. But, your laptop will probably have an NTFS type file system and I don't know of any current free utility that can shrink NTFS type file systems. There are a couple fairly inexpensive utilities on the market that can do it well. I have had good success using Partition Magic from PowerQuest to manipulate disk slices including NTFS types. One thing to keep in mind. Unless you are working on a separate disk from the one you are booting the machine you cannot run from the installed copy. To work on the main disk (most likely your case with a laptop), you must make the boot floppies it tells about in the Partition Magic documentation and then boot from them to do the disk slice manipulation.If you don't have a floppy on the laptop, you need to hook one up, maybe via USB if can be booted. More recent versions of PM might be able to do this from a bootable CD, but I don't know if they got around to it yet. > So the question: Has anyone successfully installed and run FreeBSD > (or any other *BSD or Linux distro) on a Dell Inspirion XPS Gen 2? I'm > planning to max out the RAM, include wireless networking, and sticking > with the 2GHz CPU. Other than that, it's pretty standard fare. Any > success stories would be most welcome. If anyone has found that > FreeBSD is not suited for this system (yet), or a specific Linux > distro is ideally suited for this system, that would be a most welcome > piece of info as well. I haven't used that particular machine, but it is way bigger than ones I have and there should be no problem with the capacity. There might be some complications with specific devices they include. You can check supported devices on the FreeBSD web site. Click on the 'hardware' link under the FreeBSD version you plan to use and then on the i386 in the list of CPU types on the next page. jerry > Lou > --=20 > Louis LeBlanc FreeBSD-at-keyslapper-DOT-net > Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) > Please send off-list email to: leblanc at keyslapper d.t net > Key fingerprint =3D C5E7 4762 F071 CE3B ED51 4FB8 AF85 A2FE 80C8 D9A2 > > Shannon's Observation: > Nothing is so frustrating as a bad situation that is beginning to improve. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Laptop questions
Hey all. I'm on the verge of getting myself a laptop. As this is my first laptop, and I'm rewarding myself for a recent accomplishment, I figured I'd go all out and get the top of the line Dell. I know, IBM has some great notebooks, as does Gateway and particularly Apple. I'd like to get an Apple, but that would be out of line with the reason I'm rewarding myself. Bottom line, I'll need to keep Windows on the system - relevant to the event for which I'm rewarding myself. Still, I'd really, REALLY like to get FreeBSD (or some other *BSD) and/or *maybe* a Linux distro on there as well. The hard drive is going to be a 100G, so I could probably squeeze at least 2 OSes on without much trouble. So the question: Has anyone successfully installed and run FreeBSD (or any other *BSD or Linux distro) on a Dell Inspirion XPS Gen 2? I'm planning to max out the RAM, include wireless networking, and sticking with the 2GHz CPU. Other than that, it's pretty standard fare. Any success stories would be most welcome. If anyone has found that FreeBSD is not suited for this system (yet), or a specific Linux distro is ideally suited for this system, that would be a most welcome piece of info as well. Lou -- Louis LeBlanc FreeBSD-at-keyslapper-DOT-net Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) Please send off-list email to: leblanc at keyslapper d.t net Key fingerprint = C5E7 4762 F071 CE3B ED51 4FB8 AF85 A2FE 80C8 D9A2 Shannon's Observation: Nothing is so frustrating as a bad situation that is beginning to improve. pgpek9Y4Zw8sw.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Internal SD card reader, Dell laptop
On Monday 05 September 2005 17:03, Roland Smith wrote: > > Thanks a lot for your advice - I shall follow it, even if it is slightly > > dispiriting. Perhaps I should learn C properly and start writing some > > drivers... :-) > > Not that I want to discourage you, but that seems like a tall > order. Apart from knowing C, you'd have to get familiar with the FreeBSD > kernel and writing device drivers. I'm not entirely serious - that is, it's certainly the Right Thing To Do, but I know my limitations as a programmer! Perhaps I'll start with something simpler. > If you are serious about writing a driver, I would recommend reading > "The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System" by > McKusick and Neville-Neil. Good advice, once again! Thanks very much. Cheers, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Internal SD card reader, Dell laptop
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 03:26:22PM +0100, Ben Paley wrote: > > > Is that it? > > > > I think so. According to the following page, > > http://www.math.ucla.edu/~jimc/insp6000/p-proc.html#sd it is a Ricoh > > R5c576A chip. Looking at the Ricoh page for this chip, > > http://www.ricoh.com/LSI/product_pcif/pcc/5c576a/ there seems to be no > > programming info available. > > > > AFAICT, there is no Linux driver either, but someone seems to be working > > on it: http://list.drzeus.cx/pipermail/wbsd-devel/2005-March/000261.html > > You could try contacting this person to see how far his efforts have > > come, and who the FreeBSD kernel developer is who is working on this. > > Thanks a lot for your advice - I shall follow it, even if it is slightly > dispiriting. Perhaps I should learn C properly and start writing some > drivers... :-) Not that I want to discourage you, but that seems like a tall order. Apart from knowing C, you'd have to get familiar with the FreeBSD kernel and writing device drivers. I guess a driver for an SD card reader should be similar to the USB umass(4) driver. It should also handle disks by using the CAM transport layer and da(4) devices. If you are serious about writing a driver, I would recommend reading "The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System" by McKusick and Neville-Neil. Roland -- R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt pgp16A3fSGmbP.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Internal SD card reader, Dell laptop
...PS - Thanks not just for your advice, but for putting in the effort to find this stuff out - I wouldn't have known where to start! Thanks, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Internal SD card reader, Dell laptop
On Monday 05 September 2005 11:50, Roland Smith wrote: > > $ pciconf -lv > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:2: class=0x080501 card=0x01881028 chip=0x08221180 > > rev=0x17 > > hdr=0x00 > > vendor = 'Ricoh Co Ltd' > > device = 'SD Bus Host Adapter' > > class= base peripheral > > > > Is that it? > > I think so. According to the following page, > http://www.math.ucla.edu/~jimc/insp6000/p-proc.html#sd it is a Ricoh > R5c576A chip. Looking at the Ricoh page for this chip, > http://www.ricoh.com/LSI/product_pcif/pcc/5c576a/ there seems to be no > programming info available. > > AFAICT, there is no Linux driver either, but someone seems to be working > on it: http://list.drzeus.cx/pipermail/wbsd-devel/2005-March/000261.html > You could try contacting this person to see how far his efforts have > come, and who the FreeBSD kernel developer is who is working on this. Thanks a lot for your advice - I shall follow it, even if it is slightly dispiriting. Perhaps I should learn C properly and start writing some drivers... :-) Cheers, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Internal SD card reader, Dell laptop
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 11:24:33AM +0100, Ben Paley wrote: > On Monday 05 September 2005 11:04, Roland Smith wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 10:36:40AM +0100, Ben Paley wrote: > > > Anyone got any idea how I can access the built-in sd card reader on my > > > dell inspiron 6000 laptop? > > > > Is there anything in /var/log/messages? > > Not so far as I can see, nor in dmesg > > > If not, try 'pciconf -lv', > > $ pciconf -lv > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:2: class=0x080501 card=0x01881028 chip=0x08221180 > rev=0x17 > hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'Ricoh Co Ltd' > device = 'SD Bus Host Adapter' > class= base peripheral > > Is that it? I think so. According to the following page, http://www.math.ucla.edu/~jimc/insp6000/p-proc.html#sd it is a Ricoh R5c576A chip. Looking at the Ricoh page for this chip, http://www.ricoh.com/LSI/product_pcif/pcc/5c576a/ there seems to be no programming info available. AFAICT, there is no Linux driver either, but someone seems to be working on it: http://list.drzeus.cx/pipermail/wbsd-devel/2005-March/000261.html You could try contacting this person to see how far his efforts have come, and who the FreeBSD kernel developer is who is working on this. Roland -- R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt pgpFyelBWo4D3.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Internal SD card reader, Dell laptop
On Monday 05 September 2005 11:04, Roland Smith wrote: > On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 10:36:40AM +0100, Ben Paley wrote: > > Anyone got any idea how I can access the built-in sd card reader on my > > dell inspiron 6000 laptop? > > Is there anything in /var/log/messages? Not so far as I can see, nor in dmesg > If not, try 'pciconf -lv', $ pciconf -lv [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:2: class=0x080501 card=0x01881028 chip=0x08221180 rev=0x17 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Ricoh Co Ltd' device = 'SD Bus Host Adapter' class= base peripheral Is that it? > 'usbdevs just four empty sockets there > and 'camcontrol devlist -v' Nothing there apart from the optical drive. > to see if it is on the PCI, USB or > SCSI bus respectively. So, PCI then? How do I go about my kernel config to get it detected? > If you can't get it to work, the SanDisk SDDR-93 sd card reader is > supposed to work with Linux, so using it with FreeBSD should be possible. I can get to the camera with its cable, though it's a bit slow - I just wanted the convenience of using the built-in reader, since it's there! Thanks a lot for your advice ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Internal SD card reader, Dell laptop
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 10:36:40AM +0100, Ben Paley wrote: > Anyone got any idea how I can access the built-in sd card reader on my > dell inspiron 6000 laptop? Is there anything in /var/log/messages? If not, try 'pciconf -lv', 'usbdevs' and 'camcontrol devlist -v' to see if it is on the PCI, USB or SCSI bus respectively. If you can't get it to work, the SanDisk SDDR-93 sd card reader is supposed to work with Linux, so using it with FreeBSD should be possible. Roland -- R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt pgpKtYQjfyM1B.pgp Description: PGP signature
Internal SD card reader, Dell laptop
Hello, Anyone got any idea how I can access the built-in sd card reader on my dell inspiron 6000 laptop? There's no /dev/sda at the moment. I can't seem to find out how the card connects internally - neither usb nor scsi look very likely... Any more ideas? Cheers, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD on old laptop, installer panic
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 06:55:57PM -0400, Zac Berkowitz wrote: > I'm giving FreeBSD a go on my laptop, but I'm running into problems > straight off the 5.4-STABLE installer. At first it would hang without an > error. After I disabled power management in the bios I got a bit further > - now it crashes with a panic: > - > pcib0: pcibus 0 on motherboard > pir0: on motherboard > pci0: on pcib0 > > Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode > fault virtual address = 0xeb871 > fault code = supervisor read, page not present > instruction pointer = 0x8 :0xc00eb757 > stack pointer = 0x10 :0xc1020a0 > frame pointer = 0x10 :0xc1020a0 > code segment = base 0x0, limit 0xf, type 0x1b >= DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, IOPL = 0 > processor eflags = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0 > current process = 0 > trap number=12 > > panic: page fault > > > Some googling with the fault virtual address turned up a few pages, but > none in english and seemingly none coming to a solution. lspci -v in linux > gives me > > - > :00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge > (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) >Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0 >Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0 >I/O behind bridge: 8000-9fff >Memory behind bridge: d800-dfff >Prefetchable memory behind bridge: d000-d7ff > - > > Any ideas? Usually my *NIX give me panics /after/ I get through installing > them : p > I've had the same problem on an old laptop. I was told to try older releases (tried 4.11 and 5.4). I haven't gotten around to it, but that's somewhere to start. Cheers, Jason ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
FreeBSD on old laptop, installer panic
I'm giving FreeBSD a go on my laptop, but I'm running into problems straight off the 5.4-STABLE installer. At first it would hang without an error. After I disabled power management in the bios I got a bit further - now it crashes with a panic: - pcib0: pcibus 0 on motherboard pir0: on motherboard pci0: on pcib0 Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode fault virtual address = 0xeb871 fault code = supervisor read, page not present instruction pointer = 0x8 :0xc00eb757 stack pointer = 0x10 :0xc1020a0 frame pointer = 0x10 :0xc1020a0 code segment = base 0x0, limit 0xf, type 0x1b = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, IOPL = 0 processor eflags = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0 current process = 0 trap number=12 panic: page fault Some googling with the fault virtual address turned up a few pages, but none in english and seemingly none coming to a solution. lspci -v in linux gives me - :00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0 Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0 I/O behind bridge: 8000-9fff Memory behind bridge: d800-dfff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: d000-d7ff - Any ideas? Usually my *NIX give me panics /after/ I get through installing them : p -Zac ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Configuring XFree86 on a Asus L7200 laptop
Hi Simon, Got ur e-mail fr the net. For your info, someone wanna pass me the same laptop model you've been using. Can you brief me the advantage & dis :) Thanks, Finn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Laptop mode for FreeBSD
On 7/26/05, Richard Lupton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I have an old NEC Versa LX laptop with a very noisy disk. Mostly from > the point of view of making it quieter, rather than saving power, I > would like to let the disk spin down in the same way as laptop_mode > does for linux. > I can set the standby time and power saving options for the disk using > ataidle, but the disk doesn't stay spun down for any length of time. > Does anyone know of an equivalent to laptop_mode, or alternatively the > appropriate sysctls to postpone disk access? > AFAIK, one doesn't exist. Feel free to write one. Anyways, in a more productive manner...By disabling things that poll disk (cron, for instance), disabling access times (mount with noatime), and intelligent use of ramdisks, the disk can spend a lot of time spun down. -- If I write a signature, my emails will appear more personalised. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Laptop mode for FreeBSD
Hello, I have an old NEC Versa LX laptop with a very noisy disk. Mostly from the point of view of making it quieter, rather than saving power, I would like to let the disk spin down in the same way as laptop_mode does for linux. I can set the standby time and power saving options for the disk using ataidle, but the disk doesn't stay spun down for any length of time. Does anyone know of an equivalent to laptop_mode, or alternatively the appropriate sysctls to postpone disk access? Thanks, Richard ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
laptop with another monitor X configuration
Hi experts, I am looking a way to use both the laptop native lcd monitor and another CRT monitor. I pluged in the monitor, nothing happens. I can only switch between them by pressing the Fn+monitorSwitch button on my keyboard. I modified /etc/X11/XF86Config, as in the attachment. I have changed few sections according to some resources I found by googling. Has anyone got the same situation, please send me a copy of your XF86Config or Xorg config file. Thanks in advanced. LEI -- Discovery The Binary Path XF86Config Description: Binary data ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
RE: how to install on laptop? video issue?
>-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Peter van der >Linden >Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2005 7:06 PM >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: how to install on laptop? video issue? > > >I want to install FreeBSD 5.4 onto a partition on my 1 year old HP >laptop. > >I've done a lot of Linux distro installs, and sometimes I need to give >the installer a hint about the graphics card, >typically something like: > >boot: linux vga=771 > >When I try the FreeBSD installer, the screen goes blank about 5 seconds >after it starts booting from the CD, typically at the point where it >switches to X Window in a Linux install. > The FreeBSD 5.4 installer does not switch to a graphical X windows screen during the installation precisely to prevent the sort of problem that Linux distros have with hardware like yours. What most likely happened is that something in the FreeBSD kernel probe tickled some hardware in the laptop and made the system either freeze up, or switch off the LCD screen. You might try it with a monitor plugged into the video port and see what happens - also try the keypress sequence on your laptop that switches the video between screen and external port just to see if the screen comes back. Make sure your running the latest BIOS update for your laptop, you can download that from HP. Also see if there is an option to turn ACPI off in your BIOS and try installing with it off. You might have to turn it off at the boot loader with the command unset acpi_load This is discussed here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/laptop/article.html Ted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: how to install on laptop? video issue?
On 6/20/05, Peter van der Linden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to install FreeBSD 5.4 onto a partition on my 1 year old HP > laptop. > > I've done a lot of Linux distro installs, and sometimes I need to give > the installer a hint about the graphics card, > typically something like: > > boot: linux vga=771 > > When I try the FreeBSD installer, the screen goes blank about 5 seconds > after it starts booting from the CD, typically at the point where it > switches to X Window in a Linux install. > > Is there a similar hint I can give FreeBSD about the type of graphics > to use? What are the syntax and choices? > I have googled for this without success. Thanks, I doubt this is graphics. FreeBSD installer works in text mode. Can you see the initial menu (with FreeBSD mascot, ASCII-art style, on the right side of the screen) before the screen gets blank? -- Dmitry "We live less by imagination than despite it" - Rockwell Kent, "N by E" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
how to install on laptop? video issue?
I want to install FreeBSD 5.4 onto a partition on my 1 year old HP laptop. I've done a lot of Linux distro installs, and sometimes I need to give the installer a hint about the graphics card, typically something like: boot: linux vga=771 When I try the FreeBSD installer, the screen goes blank about 5 seconds after it starts booting from the CD, typically at the point where it switches to X Window in a Linux install. Is there a similar hint I can give FreeBSD about the type of graphics to use? What are the syntax and choices? I have googled for this without success. Thanks, Peter ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: sony laptop - xorg comes up in small box
Try editing xorg.conf and putting your correct screen resolution in as the only option. On Sat, 21 May 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to install get xorg running on my Sony Vaio PCG FX-150, running FBSD 5.4. When I "startx", X comes up in the small rectangular box the same as the console. How do I get X to take up my full screen and also how could I go about doing that for the consoles. The X driver I'm using is the i810-i815 driver. Also, I am having difficulty locating information for the horizontal and vertial sync rates for my display (checked google and sony website). That might have something to do with it. Can anyone help me with this? Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
sony laptop - xorg comes up in small box
I'm trying to install get xorg running on my Sony Vaio PCG FX-150, running FBSD 5.4. When I "startx", X comes up in the small rectangular box the same as the console. How do I get X to take up my full screen and also how could I go about doing that for the consoles. The X driver I'm using is the i810-i815 driver. Also, I am having difficulty locating information for the horizontal and vertial sync rates for my display (checked google and sony website). That might have something to do with it. Can anyone help me with this? Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Interrupt storm in Compaq Presario Laptop
Dear fellows, I have a Compaq presario 1230 laptop here! FreeBSD 4.11 Installs fine but: a) USB port doesn't work b) touchpad doesn't work c) /dev/psm0 cannot be found in /dev FreeBSD 5.4 and 5.3 --- Installs fine but: a) USB port works fine b) touchpad doesn't work c) /dev/psm0 cannot be found in /dev d) time passes too quickly! 1 minute in FreeBSD 5.4 and 5.3 passes every 10 seconds. Below I attached the output of ls /dev more /etc/rc.conf dmesg Any ideas how can I fix those problems? Thanks in advance! This is my dev directory acd0 acd0t01 ad0 ad0s1 ad0s1a ad0s1b ad0s1c ad0s1d ad0s1e ad0s1f ata atkbd0 console consolectl ctty cuaa0 cuaia0 cuala0 devctl devstat fd fd0 fido geom.ctl io kbd0 klog kmem log mdctl mem net net1 net2 network nfs4 null pci ptyp0 ptyp1 ptyp2 random stderr stdin stdout sysmouse ttyd0 ttyid0 ttyld0 ttyp0 ttyp1 ttyp2 ttyv0 ttyv1 ttyv2 ttyv3 ttyv4 ttyv5 ttyv6 ttyv7 ttyv8 ttyv9 ttyva ttyvb ttyvc ttyvd ttyve ttyvf ums0 urandom usb usb0 xpt0 zero This is my /etc/rc.conf --- # -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Sat May 21 12:34:39 2005 # Created: Sat May 21 12:34:38 2005 # Enable network daemons for user convenience. # Please make all changes to this file, not to /etc/defaults/rc.conf. # This file now contains just the overrides from /etc/defaults/rc.conf. defaultrouter="195.251.194.200" hostname="nevra.materials.uoi.gr" ifconfig_ed1="inet 195.251.194.137 netmask 255.255.255.128" linux_enable="YES" moused_enable="NO" moused_port="/dev/cuaa3" moused_type="auto" sshd_enable="YES" usbd_enable="YES" This is my dmesg Copyright (c) 1992-2005 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #0: Sun May 8 10:21:06 UTC 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Cyrix GXm (24.45-MHz 586-class CPU) Origin = "CyrixInstead" Id = 0x540 DIR=0x3544 Stepping=3 Revision=5 real memory = 100663296 (96 MB) avail memory = 88838144 (84 MB) pnpbios: Bad PnP BIOS data checksum npx0: on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface cpu0 on motherboard pcib0: pcibus 0 on motherboard pir0: on motherboard pci0: on pcib0 cbb0: at device 17.0 on pci0 cardbus0: on cbb0 pccard0: <16-bit PCCard bus> on cbb0 cbb1: at device 17.1 on pci0 cardbus1: on cbb1 pccard1: <16-bit PCCard bus> on cbb1 isab0: port 0x5000-0x500f,0x4000-0x401f,0x3000-0x307f mem 0x4001-0x40010fff at device 18.0 on pci0 isa0: on isab0 ohci0: mem 0xfedfe000-0xfedfefff irq 9 at device 19.0 on pci0 usb0: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support usb0: on ohci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: (0x0e11) OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered pci0: at device 20.0 (no driver attached) orm0: at iomem 0xc-0xc9fff on isa0 pmtimer0 on isa0 ata0 at port 0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 on isa0 ata1 at port 0x376,0x170-0x177 irq 15 on isa0 atkbdc0: at port 0x64,0x60 on isa0 atkbd0: irq 1 on atkbdc0 kbd0 at atkbd0 fdc0: at port 0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0 fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0 ppc0: parallel port not found. sc0: at flags 0x100 on isa0 sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300> sio0: configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio0: port may not be enabled sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 sio0: type 8250 or not responding sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio1: port may not be enabled vga0: at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa-0xb on isa0 uhub1: Atmel product 0x3311, class 9/0, rev 1.00/3.00, addr 2 uhub1: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered Timecounter "TSC" frequency 24447264 Hz quality 800 Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec ad0: 3100MB [6300/16/63] at ata0-master PIO4 acd0: CDROM at ata1-master PIO4 ed1: at port 0x300-0x31f irq 9 function 0 config 32 on pccard0 ed1: Ethernet address: 00:a0:0c:12:74:2e ed1: if_start running deferred for Giant ed1: type NE2000 (16 bit) Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a WARNING: / was not properly dismounted WARNING: /tmp was not properly dismounted WARNING: /usr was not properly dismounted /usr: mount pending error: blocks 12 files 1 WARNING: /var was not properly dismounted /var: mount pending error: blocks 8 files 2 ums0: Microsoft Microsoft 5-Button Mouse with IntelliEye(TM), rev 1.10/3.00, addr 3, iclass 3/1 ums0: 5 buttons and Z dir. uhub1: illegal enable change, port 1 Discover Yahoo! Find restaurants, movies, travel and more fun for the weekend. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/weekend.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Toshiba Portégé 4000 laptop
Okay the solution is to disable COM and Parallel ports in the bios. (Maybe also USB KB, and USB FDD). To access the bios you have to press ESC while the red TOSHIBA boot screen is displayed, then press F1. (I explain that becaused it's undocumented). With the default settings, I even got the 5.x kernel to panic. Really strange. Thanks for your help ;) On 4/23/05, Laurent Debacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With FreeSBIE 1.1 (based on FreeBSD 5.3), it says: > acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retrying (2 retries left) > acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG timed out > Then it stop/freezes. > If I press the power button, it says "acpi: suspend request ignored > (not ready yet)." > > Thanks. > > On 4/23/05, Laurent Debacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I tried 5.4-RC3 with no ACPI, safe mode, and DEBUG mode, without > > success. DEBUG doesn't repport anything. > > > > 5.3 also crashes in safe mode, and no ACPI, freezes after "pci0: > bus> on pcib0". > > > > dmesg on 4.11 reports: > > ohci0: mem > > 0xf7eff000-0xf7ef irq 11 at device 2.0 on pci0. > > You can see full report below. > > > > Thank you for your help ;) > > Laurent. > > > > Here are drivers loaded by 4.11 as reported by dmesg: > > md0: Preloaded image 4423680 bytes at 0xc03edc14 > > md1: Malloc disk > > Using $PIR table, 9 entries at 0xc00f01d0 > > npx0: on motherboard > > npx0: INT 16 interface > > pcib0: on motherboard > > pci0: on pcib0 > > pcib1: at device 1.0 on pci0 > > pci1: on pcib1 > > pci1: at 0.0 irq 11 > > ohci0: mem > > 0xf7eff000-0xf7ef irq 11 at device 2.0 on pci0 > > usb0: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support > > usb0: SMM does not respond, resetting > > usb0: on ohci0 > > usb0: USB revision 1.0 > > uhub0: AcerLabs OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 > > uhub0: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered > > atapci0: port 0xeff0-0xefff at > > device 4.0 on pci0 > > ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 > > ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 > > pci0: (vendor=0x10b9, dev=0x5451) at 6.0 > > isab0: at device 7.0 on pci0 > > isa0: on isab0 > > chip1: at device 8.0 on pci0 > > fxp0: port 0xeec0-0xeeff mem > > 0xf7d0-0xf7df,0xf7efe000-0xf7efefff irq 11 at device 10.0 on > > pci0 > > fxp0: Ethernet address 00:00:39:a7:a0:b4 > > inphy0: on miibus0 > > inphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto > > pci_cfgintr_linked: linked (3) to hard-routed irq 11 > > pci_cfgintr: 0:16 INTA routed to irq11 > > pcic0: irq 11 at device 16.0 on pci0 > > pcic0: PCI Memory allocated: 0x8800 > > pcic0: TI12XX PCI Config Reg: [pwr save][pci only] > > pccard0: on pcic0 > > pci_cfgintr_linked: linked (1) to hard-routed irq 11 > > pci_cfgintr: 0:17 INTA routed to irq11 > > pcic1: irq 11 at device 17.0 on pci0 > > pcic1: PCI Memory allocated: 0x88001000 > > pccard1: on pcic1 > > pci_cfgintr_linked: linked (2) to hard-routed irq 11 > > pci_cfgintr: 0:17 INTB routed to irq11 > > pcic2: irq 11 at device 17.1 on pci0 > > pcic2: PCI Memory allocated: 0x88002000 > > pccard2: on pcic2 > > pci0: (vendor=0x1179, dev=0x0805) at 18.0 > > orm0: at iomem 0xc-0xcbfff,0xe-0xe on isa0 > > pmtimer0 on isa0 > > fdc0: ready for input in output > > fdc0: cmd 3 failed at out byte 1 of 3 > > atkbdc0: at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0 > > atkbd0: flags 0x1 irq1 on atkbdc0 > > kbd0 at atkbd0 > > psm0: irq 12 on atkbdc0 > > psm0: model IntelliMouse, device ID 3 > > vga0: at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa-0xb on isa0 > > sc0: at flags 0x100 on isa0 > > sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300> > > sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 > > sio0: type 16550A > > sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 > > ppc0: parallel port not found. > > pccard: card inserted, slot0 > > pccard: card removed, slot0 > > ad0: 16077MB [38760/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA66 > > acd0: DVD-ROM at ata1-master PIO4 > > > > On 4/23/05, Kevin Kinsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Laurent Debacker wrote: > > > > > > >Hello, > > > > > > > >Both FreeBSD 5.3 and 5.4-RC3 freeze during the boot of the kernel. It > > > >detects my CPU, RAM, some ACPI stuffs.. I noticed > > > >pci1: at device 0.0 (no driver attached). > > > >I don't know if it's ok. > > > >At the end, it says ohci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] > > > >then usb0: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support, > > > >then nothing. > > > > > > > >FreeBSD 4.11 boots well. However I don't want FreeBSD 4.11 ;) > > > > > > > >Any idea? > > > > > > > >Thank you, > > > >Laurent Debacker. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > What does the 4.11 dmesg say about the ochi device? > > > > > > Can you boot safe mode on 5.X? Have you tried booting > > > with ACPI disabled? > > > > > > HTH, > > > > > > KDK > > > > > > > > > ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Toshiba Portégé 4000 laptop
With FreeSBIE 1.1 (based on FreeBSD 5.3), it says: acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retrying (2 retries left) acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG timed out Then it stop/freezes. If I press the power button, it says "acpi: suspend request ignored (not ready yet)." Thanks. On 4/23/05, Laurent Debacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried 5.4-RC3 with no ACPI, safe mode, and DEBUG mode, without > success. DEBUG doesn't repport anything. > > 5.3 also crashes in safe mode, and no ACPI, freezes after "pci0: bus> on pcib0". > > dmesg on 4.11 reports: > ohci0: mem > 0xf7eff000-0xf7ef irq 11 at device 2.0 on pci0. > You can see full report below. > > Thank you for your help ;) > Laurent. > > Here are drivers loaded by 4.11 as reported by dmesg: > md0: Preloaded image 4423680 bytes at 0xc03edc14 > md1: Malloc disk > Using $PIR table, 9 entries at 0xc00f01d0 > npx0: on motherboard > npx0: INT 16 interface > pcib0: on motherboard > pci0: on pcib0 > pcib1: at device 1.0 on pci0 > pci1: on pcib1 > pci1: at 0.0 irq 11 > ohci0: mem > 0xf7eff000-0xf7ef irq 11 at device 2.0 on pci0 > usb0: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support > usb0: SMM does not respond, resetting > usb0: on ohci0 > usb0: USB revision 1.0 > uhub0: AcerLabs OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 > uhub0: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered > atapci0: port 0xeff0-0xefff at > device 4.0 on pci0 > ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 > ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 > pci0: (vendor=0x10b9, dev=0x5451) at 6.0 > isab0: at device 7.0 on pci0 > isa0: on isab0 > chip1: at device 8.0 on pci0 > fxp0: port 0xeec0-0xeeff mem > 0xf7d0-0xf7df,0xf7efe000-0xf7efefff irq 11 at device 10.0 on > pci0 > fxp0: Ethernet address 00:00:39:a7:a0:b4 > inphy0: on miibus0 > inphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto > pci_cfgintr_linked: linked (3) to hard-routed irq 11 > pci_cfgintr: 0:16 INTA routed to irq11 > pcic0: irq 11 at device 16.0 on pci0 > pcic0: PCI Memory allocated: 0x8800 > pcic0: TI12XX PCI Config Reg: [pwr save][pci only] > pccard0: on pcic0 > pci_cfgintr_linked: linked (1) to hard-routed irq 11 > pci_cfgintr: 0:17 INTA routed to irq11 > pcic1: irq 11 at device 17.0 on pci0 > pcic1: PCI Memory allocated: 0x88001000 > pccard1: on pcic1 > pci_cfgintr_linked: linked (2) to hard-routed irq 11 > pci_cfgintr: 0:17 INTB routed to irq11 > pcic2: irq 11 at device 17.1 on pci0 > pcic2: PCI Memory allocated: 0x88002000 > pccard2: on pcic2 > pci0: (vendor=0x1179, dev=0x0805) at 18.0 > orm0: at iomem 0xc-0xcbfff,0xe-0xe on isa0 > pmtimer0 on isa0 > fdc0: ready for input in output > fdc0: cmd 3 failed at out byte 1 of 3 > atkbdc0: at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0 > atkbd0: flags 0x1 irq1 on atkbdc0 > kbd0 at atkbd0 > psm0: irq 12 on atkbdc0 > psm0: model IntelliMouse, device ID 3 > vga0: at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa-0xb on isa0 > sc0: at flags 0x100 on isa0 > sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300> > sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 > sio0: type 16550A > sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 > ppc0: parallel port not found. > pccard: card inserted, slot0 > pccard: card removed, slot0 > ad0: 16077MB [38760/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA66 > acd0: DVD-ROM at ata1-master PIO4 > > On 4/23/05, Kevin Kinsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Laurent Debacker wrote: > > > > >Hello, > > > > > >Both FreeBSD 5.3 and 5.4-RC3 freeze during the boot of the kernel. It > > >detects my CPU, RAM, some ACPI stuffs.. I noticed > > >pci1: at device 0.0 (no driver attached). > > >I don't know if it's ok. > > >At the end, it says ohci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] > > >then usb0: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support, > > >then nothing. > > > > > >FreeBSD 4.11 boots well. However I don't want FreeBSD 4.11 ;) > > > > > >Any idea? > > > > > >Thank you, > > >Laurent Debacker. > > > > > > > > > > What does the 4.11 dmesg say about the ochi device? > > > > Can you boot safe mode on 5.X? Have you tried booting > > with ACPI disabled? > > > > HTH, > > > > KDK > > > > > ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Toshiba Portégé 4000 laptop
Laurent Debacker wrote: Hello, Both FreeBSD 5.3 and 5.4-RC3 freeze during the boot of the kernel. It detects my CPU, RAM, some ACPI stuffs.. I noticed pci1: at device 0.0 (no driver attached). I don't know if it's ok. At the end, it says ohci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] then usb0: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support, then nothing. FreeBSD 4.11 boots well. However I don't want FreeBSD 4.11 ;) Any idea? Thank you, Laurent Debacker. What does the 4.11 dmesg say about the ochi device? Can you boot safe mode on 5.X? Have you tried booting with ACPI disabled? HTH, KDK ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Toshiba Portégé 4000 laptop
Hello, Both FreeBSD 5.3 and 5.4-RC3 freeze during the boot of the kernel. It detects my CPU, RAM, some ACPI stuffs.. I noticed pci1: at device 0.0 (no driver attached). I don't know if it's ok. At the end, it says ohci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] then usb0: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support, then nothing. FreeBSD 4.11 boots well. However I don't want FreeBSD 4.11 ;) Any idea? Thank you, Laurent Debacker. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: my ethernet to my laptop/getting the tcp/X11 socket up
wizlayer wrote: On Thursday 31 March 2005 12:41 pm, Chuck Robey wrote: [snip] I installed it, it worked with the rl0 driver. Sometimes. Why sometimes? Smart guy, that's question 1. The indication I get is, I get an error (tcp error) soemthing like this one below (they're not all alike): Mar 30 21:37:52 september kernel: rl0: discard frame w/o leading ethernet header (len 2 pkt len 2) Well, the result is always the same, which is that the rl0 line stops dead in it's tracks. I can do a ifconfig down/ifconfig up and clear it, but every time I do that, I take a 1 in 5 chance of getting a kernel panic. It's not something I crave to do a lot, so I can't just dismiss it by making a utility to down/up the interface. I need this fixed. [snip] I'm quite, *quite* willing to buy another ehternet card. The one I have is a D-Link, the dmesg reports: miibus0: on rl0 Mar 30 21:44:23 september kernel: rlphy0: on miibus0 Mar 30 21:44:23 september kernel: rlphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto Mar 30 21:44:23 september kernel: rl0: Ethernet address: 00:0d:88:27:c4:38 OK, so I'm looking for advice on the ethernet problem, and maybe [snip] Are you sure the network card itself isn't hosed? I had a cheapo network card that did something very similar. In fact, I'm pretty sure it had a realtek chipset too (although I'm not lifting a finger in their direction)... Worked fine, then weird errors and *lights out*... Turned out to be the NIC itself (why sometimes? who knows... temperature, defunct buffer After a lot of swimming thru the mail search page, I found that there are a LOT of problems that have in common these items: 1) rl0 interface 2) FreeBSD5.3 3) error messages of the form "rl0: discard oversize frame" There are a pretty fair number of these, from various sources. Fact. At least one of them claimed it was solved in RELENG_5. Sure wish I could locate the other mails in THAT chain (I spent 20 minutes trying to). So my fix sounds like it boils down to one of two items: either getting someone who knows 5.3 better than I do to recommend a cardbus device that would be sound (a vendor) and I would run right out and buy it, or I suppose I could get the required sources burnt onto a cdrom, and get them on that laptop that way, recompile, and see about reinstalling. I am loath to try that second method only cause I have all that userland software that I mustn't lose compatibiilty with, and it's got all those dependencies (sleepycat database, python, gtk, 3 1/2 pounds of my coding). I want to do the minimum necessary to get it working. So, if one of you folks can recommend a cardbus card that I oughta buy, that doesn't use the rl0 driver, that would be nice. mail me a *.ko for it, and I would love you forever. Skip that last part if you want, cause maybe I could do it, but I wasn't joking about wanting to mess with this the least I can, it's a fragile stack of software. maybe?). my .02, WizLayer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- Chuck Robey | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | electronics, communications, and SF/Fantasy. New Year's Resolution: I will not sphroxify gullible people into looking up fictitious words in the dictionary (on the wall at my old fraternity, Signa Phi Nothing). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: my ethernet to my laptop/getting the tcp/X11 socket up
On Thursday 31 March 2005 12:41 pm, Chuck Robey wrote: [snip] > I installed it, it worked with the rl0 driver. > Sometimes. > > Why sometimes? Smart guy, that's question 1. The indication I > get is, I get an error (tcp error) soemthing like this one > below (they're not all alike): > > Mar 30 21:37:52 september kernel: rl0: discard frame w/o > leading ethernet header (len 2 pkt len 2) > > Well, the result is always the same, which is that the rl0 line > stops dead in it's tracks. I can do a ifconfig down/ifconfig > up and clear it, but every time I do that, I take a 1 in 5 > chance of getting a kernel panic. It's not something I crave > to do a lot, so I can't just dismiss it by making a utility to > down/up the interface. I need this fixed. > > [snip] > > I'm quite, *quite* willing to buy another ehternet card. The > one I have is a D-Link, the dmesg reports: > > miibus0: on rl0 > Mar 30 21:44:23 september kernel: rlphy0: media interface> on miibus0 > Mar 30 21:44:23 september kernel: rlphy0: 10baseT, > 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto > Mar 30 21:44:23 september kernel: rl0: Ethernet address: > 00:0d:88:27:c4:38 > > OK, so I'm looking for advice on the ethernet problem, and > maybe [snip] Are you sure the network card itself isn't hosed? I had a cheapo network card that did something very similar. In fact, I'm pretty sure it had a realtek chipset too (although I'm not lifting a finger in their direction)... Worked fine, then weird errors and *lights out*... Turned out to be the NIC itself (why sometimes? who knows... temperature, defunct buffer maybe?). my .02, WizLayer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
my ethernet to my laptop/getting the tcp/X11 socket up
Well, I need to get two problems off my chest, so to speak, well, really 3 problems. May as well hit the easiest first, which is getting the X11 tcp socket opened up. BACKGROUND: I want to give the database I wrote to the friend of mine I wrote it for. I got a laptop that sort of fell into my lap, but it didn't come with an ethernet, so I had a ethernet card lying around (I forget the name of the outboard cards for laptops, this is the very first time for me, using a laptop). I installed it, it worked with the rl0 driver. Sometimes. Why sometimes? Smart guy, that's question 1. The indication I get is, I get an error (tcp error) soemthing like this one below (they're not all alike): Mar 30 21:37:52 september kernel: rl0: discard frame w/o leading ethernet header (len 2 pkt len 2) Well, the result is always the same, which is that the rl0 line stops dead in it's tracks. I can do a ifconfig down/ifconfig up and clear it, but every time I do that, I take a 1 in 5 chance of getting a kernel panic. It's not something I crave to do a lot, so I can't just dismiss it by making a utility to down/up the interface. I need this fixed. My kernel is 5.3 stable. I picked it because it was the only one of all of the ones I could pick (and I did try them all) that seemed compatible not only with the ethernet card, but also the usb trackball I like (I hate mice) and that the available X for that version knows the usb drivers. Too early and it won't work with ums0. OK, I'd like suggestions from someone who knows the history, is there any easy fix for the rl0 driver I'm using, that will allow it to work stably? Anyone know of any problem like what I've described? Second set of problems is easier to describe: I want to get the tcp sockets on X turned on. I know about the -no-tcp, and there are unfortunately too many places that it could be turned off. On my server, running FreeBSD-6.0 (it's an opteron, dual) I am running a very very reent kde (damn but that compiled easily!) On the other machine, well, today it's FreeBSD-5.3 like I said. Maybe you'll change my mind. On neither machine am I running any sort of login daemon, it's just startx. I sure wish that the darned security person who got them to bias the options against running that socket would undo his work. I don't mind the option existing, but making it the default was a rotten thing to do to me. I won't listen to anyone who tells me to upgrade my laptop for the hell of it, because my app is python/gtk, and needs too many parts to work together for me to risk breaking what works today just for the hell of it. Give me a solid reason, and then I'll do it. I'm quite, *quite* willing to buy another ehternet card. The one I have is a D-Link, the dmesg reports: miibus0: on rl0 Mar 30 21:44:23 september kernel: rlphy0: on miibus0 Mar 30 21:44:23 september kernel: rlphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto Mar 30 21:44:23 september kernel: rl0: Ethernet address: 00:0d:88:27:c4:38 OK, so I'm looking for advice on the ethernet problem, and maybe -- Chuck Robey | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | electronics, communications, and SF/Fantasy. New Year's Resolution: I will not sphroxify gullible people into looking up fictitious words in the dictionary (on the wall at my old fraternity, Signa Phi Nothing). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Best way to handle network interfaces on a laptop?
On Mar 29, 2005, at 5:56 PM, Mac Mason wrote: Specifically, much of the use of this machine is in unwired sorts of places, where I want to use the wi0 interface and not the xl0 interface. If I don't have xl0 in /etc/rc.conf, and then dhclient wi0, it works fine. If I do have xl0 in rc.conf, I can't figure out how to make wi0 route things if it isn't plugged into a wire. Try: route delete default route add default IP_of_wireless_NIC It may be that deleting the default route first, before you grab a lease via "dhclient wi0" would also set up a new default route for you... -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Best way to handle network interfaces on a laptop?
So, I've got a laptop with two network interfaces (a wired one, xl0, and a wireless, wi0). The network setup around here gives me a static IP for the wired inteface, and DHCP for the wireless. My question has (I think) to do with routing; when I have the config for xl0 in /etc/rc.conf, and it starts on boot, starting wi0 doesn't help with connectivity. Specifically, much of the use of this machine is in unwired sorts of places, where I want to use the wi0 interface and not the xl0 interface. If I don't have xl0 in /etc/rc.conf, and then dhclient wi0, it works fine. If I do have xl0 in rc.conf, I can't figure out how to make wi0 route things if it isn't plugged into a wire. ifconfig xl0 down, which I thought would work, doesn't. Help? Thanks! --Mac pgpm8a5tCnebi.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: keyboard problem on laptop.
Sorry folks. Its the laptop. Tried xev and got nothing when pressing the shift keys (both of them). Popped in an old windows disk, and it seems that it's not working for windows either. It's been so long since I've used this machine, and it was working when I had my last OS on it, so I made a bad assumption. Thanks for the help, and again, sorry for the red herring. Dennis. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Nathan Kinkade > Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 7:22 AM > To: Dennis Crowley > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: keyboard problem on laptop. > > > On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 05:03:07PM -0800, Dennis Crowley wrote: > > Hi yall. > > > > I've installed FreeBSD on my old Dell Insperion 7500, which I would like > > to use as a router (low power) and network analysis tool. > > > > The problem is that the keyboard driver does not seem to be recognizing > > the shift key. Does this sound wierd (i.e. my hardware) or reasonable > > (i.e. wierd but functional hardware with a mismatched driver). > > > > I'm not sure how I would go about trying to correct this issue. > > > > Any ideas where I should begin? > > > > Dennis Crowley. > > How positive are you that the key is not just broken? Are you running X > on the machine? If so, you can use a little stock X program called xev > to view what events X is receiving, such as keystrokes. xev will tell > you what keycode was pressed and the symname. Here is an example of the > output when I run xev and then press the left Shift key: > > KeyPress event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0x1a1, > root 0x60, subw 0x0, time 755249477, (-600,175), root:(221,475), > state 0x10, keycode 50 (keysym 0xffe1, Shift_L), same_screen YES, > XLookupString gives 0 bytes: > XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: > XFilterEvent returns: False > > Perhaps this will help you to identify what, if anything, X is seeing > when you press the Shift key. > > Nathan > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.7.1 - Release Date: 3/9/2005 > > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.7.1 - Release Date: 3/9/2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: keyboard problem on laptop.
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 05:03:07PM -0800, Dennis Crowley wrote: > Hi yall. > > I've installed FreeBSD on my old Dell Insperion 7500, which I would like > to use as a router (low power) and network analysis tool. > > The problem is that the keyboard driver does not seem to be recognizing > the shift key. Does this sound wierd (i.e. my hardware) or reasonable > (i.e. wierd but functional hardware with a mismatched driver). > > I'm not sure how I would go about trying to correct this issue. > > Any ideas where I should begin? > > Dennis Crowley. How positive are you that the key is not just broken? Are you running X on the machine? If so, you can use a little stock X program called xev to view what events X is receiving, such as keystrokes. xev will tell you what keycode was pressed and the symname. Here is an example of the output when I run xev and then press the left Shift key: KeyPress event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0x1a1, root 0x60, subw 0x0, time 755249477, (-600,175), root:(221,475), state 0x10, keycode 50 (keysym 0xffe1, Shift_L), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: XFilterEvent returns: False Perhaps this will help you to identify what, if anything, X is seeing when you press the Shift key. Nathan pgpqY3Se35ayi.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: keyboard problem on laptop.
On 03/08/05 20:03:07, Dennis Crowley wrote: Hi yall. I've installed FreeBSD on my old Dell Insperion 7500, which I would like to use as a router (low power) and network analysis tool. The problem is that the keyboard driver does not seem to be recognizing the shift key. Does this sound wierd (i.e. my hardware) or reasonable (i.e. wierd but functional hardware with a mismatched driver). I'm not sure how I would go about trying to correct this issue. Any ideas where I should begin? Dennis Crowley. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.6.4 - Release Date: 3/7/2005 ___ If you can find no record of this on the net, and the key works under other oses, then use man atkbd to help you make a custom keymap so you can remap shift to another key or keys. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
keyboard problem on laptop.
Hi yall. I've installed FreeBSD on my old Dell Insperion 7500, which I would like to use as a router (low power) and network analysis tool. The problem is that the keyboard driver does not seem to be recognizing the shift key. Does this sound wierd (i.e. my hardware) or reasonable (i.e. wierd but functional hardware with a mismatched driver). I'm not sure how I would go about trying to correct this issue. Any ideas where I should begin? Dennis Crowley. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.6.4 - Release Date: 3/7/2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: asking for a help, about FreeBSD compatibility with HP nx9020 (Laptop)
Hi Tomas, i plan to begin use freeBSD in my home computer, i'd like to ask You: does my laptop HP nc9020 is compatiable with freeBSD? what is extra points of configuring Xorg server and compiling kernel? I don't know this laptop, but you may try the following: Download the FreeSBIE CD, burn it and try to boot it with your laptop. If it succeeds, FreeBSD will run on your machine. You can get FreeSBIE here: http://www.freesbie.org/ -volker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
asking for a help, about FreeBSD compatibility with HP nx9020 (Laptop)
Hello, i plan to begin use freeBSD in my home computer, i'd like to ask You: does my laptop HP nc9020 is compatiable with freeBSD? what is extra points of configuring Xorg server and compiling kernel? p.s. sorry for my language :-) (i am from Lithuania) -- Tomas Bersėnas ŠU NSC PĮ koordinatorius tel.: 8 699 59968 8 675 05824 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://distance.su.lt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Averatec 3200 Laptop Wireless?
Scorpion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anyone got an AVERATEC 3200 Series laptop with the > built-in wireless working? Is it based on the Centrino chips ? If so, you can simply try to play with Intel firmware and install if_pw drivers. -- Xavier Maillard Membre LoLiCA Post-scriptum La Poste Ce message est confidentiel. Sous réserve de tout accord conclu par écrit entre vous et La Poste, son contenu ne représente en aucun cas un engagement de la part de La Poste. Toute publication, utilisation ou diffusion, même partielle, doit être autorisée préalablement. Si vous n'êtes pas destinataire de ce message, merci d'en avertir immédiatement l'expéditeur. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Averatec 3200 Laptop Wireless?
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 04:10:32 -0800 (PST), Scorpion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone got an AVERATEC 3200 Series laptop with the > built-in wireless working? I don't have that kind of hardware, but > > On Windows it says "802.11g MiniPC Wireless Network > Adapter" > I can't find the driver for my wireless connection. The ath(4) device driver supports 802.11a and 802.11g. If your card is based on an Atheros chipset, you may be able to use this driver. see the Handbook, chapter Wireless Networking: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html You have to get the Windows drivers and compile the ndis(4) mini port driver wrapper module. > > Please help. > Hope this helps, -- Pietro "Piter" Cerutti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Beansidhe - SwiSS Death / Thrash Metal Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming or what?" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Averatec 3200 Laptop Wireless?
Anyone got an AVERATEC 3200 Series laptop with the built-in wireless working? On Windows it says "802.11g MiniPC Wireless Network Adapter", manufacturer and driver provided by "802.11 Wireless". --- ?!?!?!?!? I can't find the driver for my wireless connection. Please help. __ Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
RE: Toshiba Satellite laptop
On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 05:56, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > Do you just want a bigger disk? > > If so, then go for it - although if the disk is buried in the > laptop, it's worth it to pay someone else to install it as you > aren't going to have the tools to take it apart, nor are you going > to have the instructions on how to get it apart. > > Ted > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mike Jeays > > Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 4:13 PM > > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Subject: Toshiba Satellite laptop > > > > > > I was thinking of getting a spare hard disk for a Toshiba Satellite > > laptop (Pentium 3 with 256MB). Does anyone have any good or bad > > experiences? It runs Knoppix perfectly well. > > > > > > ___ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" I need to keep the existing Windows configuration intact on the old disk, but would also like to try FreeBSD on this machine. The disk seems to be designed to be easily removed in this model - there are just two screws to undo, and it unplugs as a sealed unit. I took the old one out and put it back in with no trouble, and it still worked normally. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
RE: Toshiba Satellite laptop
Do you just want a bigger disk? If so, then go for it - although if the disk is buried in the laptop, it's worth it to pay someone else to install it as you aren't going to have the tools to take it apart, nor are you going to have the instructions on how to get it apart. Ted > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mike Jeays > Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 4:13 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Toshiba Satellite laptop > > > I was thinking of getting a spare hard disk for a Toshiba Satellite > laptop (Pentium 3 with 256MB). Does anyone have any good or bad > experiences? It runs Knoppix perfectly well. > > > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Toshiba Satellite laptop
I was thinking of getting a spare hard disk for a Toshiba Satellite laptop (Pentium 3 with 256MB). Does anyone have any good or bad experiences? It runs Knoppix perfectly well. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
RE: Choosing to install turns off laptop. HD is untouched.
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Anthony > Atkielski > Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 8:23 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Choosing to install turns off laptop. HD is untouched. > > > While this has (mostly) gone away for desktop systems, it is > still going > > on fiercely with laptops. > > One reason why I've always hated laptops. > ditto! > > First of all HP purchased Compaq a while ago, and when the sale was > > completed they dumped the Netserver line, servers from them are > > now HP Proliants. (Proliant was the Compaq line) > > Are they as good as their HP and Compaq predecessors? > Very much so. One of the things that HP did that was smart after the Compaq merger is they didn't screw with the server design and manufacturing group. (However the sales/customer service/ordering side of the company is a mess, that's why Carly got nailed) You have to take a lot of the trade rag articles with a grain of salt. It's currently fashionable for the trade press to write articles calling for HP to spin off it's PC computer group as if that's going to save them money somehow, followed by bemoaning the poor quality of the HP desktops. The articles conclude that HP must have lost focus since they can't made a decent PC. What this misses is that HP is like all other major PC manufacturers, all of their desktop line that's aimed at the home user/small business desktop market is just badged Chinese/Korean schlock. They have the cases, components, boards, chips, etc. all made in Korea then import the finished assemblies to the country of sale, and assemble them there at high speed. (Dell's plant in Texas can pump them out at a rate of 1 every 1.5 seconds) The assemblies are all using the same parts and the systems are pretty much equally schlocky. The companies that make profits in this market are the companies that can slap them together the fastest. HP's stuff is no worse or better than anyone else's in this market. The server design and manufacturing is a totally different animal. The companies like HP and Dell that make them custom design a large amount of the stuff and the assembly isn't the million-miles-a-second frantic pace of the desktop junk. > > The Netservers and Proliants in general never had touble > with FreeBSD. > > Considering they certified them with Solaris/Netware/etc. they had to > > be pretty standard. > > Compaq Proliants had a lot of weird stuff running on the server, as I > recall. As long as you stuck to the OEM versions it ran fine, but if > you tried to wipe the machine and install a vanilla OS, things went > wrong. > Not if you know what your doing. The sister company of the ISP I work at was a Compaq VAR, (is now an HP VAR) and all our servers are Proliants of various models. Yes, there is a lot of specialty hardware in these boxes. And yes to access all of that requires a handful of custom drivers. But, OEM versions of the operating systems aren't a requirement. You can install retail versions just fine - AS LONG AS you follow Compaq's instructions on how to install the retail OS's exactly. There is for example several hardware items in some of these servers where they are modded versions of off-the-shelf chips, and Compaq supplies modded windows drivers. If you don't use the Compaq driver then the retail OS will install it's included driver for the off-the-shelf version of the chip. And you only get 1 chance during the install of the retail OS that you can insert the Compaq-written driver properly. If you miss it, you have to wipe the disk and start over because the retail driver cannot be removed. There's unfortunately too many people in the business used to shooting from the hip on windows installs. Someone who didn't read the directions for the Proliant on how to install a retail version of Windows, for example, assuming "I've installed windows a hundred times I know what I'm doing and don't need no manual for dummies" is of course going to have things going wrong. > > Fine advice for low-end servers and desktops. Terrible for high-end > > servers unless you really, really know what your doing, and you > > understand that your total cost will be more than if you just buy > > a turnkey server from someone. And rather impossible for laptops. > > Impossible for laptops, yes. I assume anyone who needs a really > high-end server is going to know a lot about what he is doing, anyway Not at all realistic. The VAST and I mean VAST majority of people that need a high-end server are not technologists and don't know what the heck they are doing. They know whatever their business is like the back of their ha
Re: Choosing to install turns off laptop. HD is untouched.
Fabian Anklam writes: > We recently had a Proliant DL380 for testing, seemed like solid > hardware, literally, the server management CD for preparing the system > for different flavors of OSes just worked as it was supposed to ... What preparation is required? Can't you just wipe the disk and install what you want, or has HP/Compaq screwed around with the hardware so much that this is no longer possible? Do they provide for FreeBSD in their "preparations"? > The usual (old) Compaq problems reside in the system partion (or > rather lack thereof) and for the Desktops in the less than mediocre > BIOS. For the older PL servers a server management boot CD is usually > all you need to get whatever you want running, for the Desktops it > usually involves hunting down some firmware upgrades and boot disks to > restore the system partition, nothing out of the ordinary. So they are just as bad as they used to be. Compaq's own garbage on their machines has always been a support headache. They just can't leave things alone. > My FreeBSD box runs on a Deskpro EP 400 desktop coupled with a > SMART2/SL RAID controller ripped out of a PL1600 - you can love or > hate compaq, but their hardware was rock-solid. The hardware itself has had a very good reputation. I'm happy to hear that this is still the case (and unhappy to hear that they still can't keep their hands out of it). -- Anthony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Choosing to install turns off laptop. HD is untouched.
> > First of all HP purchased Compaq a while ago, and when the sale was > > completed they dumped the Netserver line, servers from them are > > now HP Proliants. (Proliant was the Compaq line) > > Are they as good as their HP and Compaq predecessors? We recently had a Proliant DL380 for testing, seemed like solid hardware, literally, the server management CD for preparing the system for different flavors of OSes just worked as it was supposed to, neat integrated systems management solutions. Fine hardware from what I could tell in the little time I had with it and OEM solutions that seemed actually usefull. > > The Netservers and Proliants in general never had touble with FreeBSD. > > Considering they certified them with Solaris/Netware/etc. they had to > > be pretty standard. > > Compaq Proliants had a lot of weird stuff running on the server, as I > recall. As long as you stuck to the OEM versions it ran fine, but if > you tried to wipe the machine and install a vanilla OS, things went > wrong. The usual (old) Compaq problems reside in the system partion (or rather lack thereof) and for the Desktops in the less than mediocre BIOS. For the older PL servers a server management boot CD is usually all you need to get whatever you want running, for the Desktops it usually involves hunting down some firmware upgrades and boot disks to restore the system partition, nothing out of the ordinary. My FreeBSD box runs on a Deskpro EP 400 desktop coupled with a SMART2/SL RAID controller ripped out of a PL1600 - you can love or hate compaq, but their hardware was rock-solid. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Choosing to install turns off laptop. HD is untouched.
Ted Mittelstaedt writes: > Generally the MO in the past has been to use the el-cheapo-ist components > possible, then when the OEM vendors discover some hardware bug or other > shortfall, they have Microsoft help them to write around the problems > with various patches, which are included in the OEM version of Windows. > > While this has (mostly) gone away for desktop systems, it is still going > on fiercely with laptops. One reason why I've always hated laptops. > First of all HP purchased Compaq a while ago, and when the sale was > completed they dumped the Netserver line, servers from them are > now HP Proliants. (Proliant was the Compaq line) Are they as good as their HP and Compaq predecessors? > The Netservers and Proliants in general never had touble with FreeBSD. > Considering they certified them with Solaris/Netware/etc. they had to > be pretty standard. Compaq Proliants had a lot of weird stuff running on the server, as I recall. As long as you stuck to the OEM versions it ran fine, but if you tried to wipe the machine and install a vanilla OS, things went wrong. > Fine advice for low-end servers and desktops. Terrible for high-end > servers unless you really, really know what your doing, and you > understand that your total cost will be more than if you just buy > a turnkey server from someone. And rather impossible for laptops. Impossible for laptops, yes. I assume anyone who needs a really high-end server is going to know a lot about what he is doing, anyway (much more so than the average user of a really high-end desktop). Of course, if you can find a high-end server that meets your requirements, there's no need to build one yourself. I'd still prefer that it be delivered without any OS, though, just to avoid the OEM tweaking. It's one thing to optimize server hardware and software for server use; I'm all in favor of that. But I think it should always be done with off-the-shelf products that you can buy anywhere, otherwise you risk being the captive of a specific vendor or vendors. For every advantage you might get from OEM tweaks, there is likely to be a corresponding disadvantage. -- Anthony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
RE: Choosing to install turns off laptop. HD is untouched.
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Anthony > Atkielski > Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2005 9:28 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Choosing to install turns off laptop. HD is untouched. > > > bsdnooby writes: > > > When I try to install FreeBSD, my brand new HP Pavilion laptop turns > > itself off. > > While it's rather late for me to make this observation, I find that > computers from big-name vendors tend to show a great deal of > interdependence between the pre-installed OS and the hardware. The > vendors often design the systems around the assumption that the > pre-installed OS (normally Windows) will be the one and only OS on the > machine. There may be tweaks in the OEM installation of the OS that > accommodate tweaks in the hardware, or vice versa. > Generally the MO in the past has been to use the el-cheapo-ist components possible, then when the OEM vendors discover some hardware bug or other shortfall, they have Microsoft help them to write around the problems with various patches, which are included in the OEM version of Windows. While this has (mostly) gone away for desktop systems, it is still going on fiercely with laptops. > > I've seen server machines afflicted in the same way. Compaq has long > had a habit of messing around with this sort of thing, and > unfortunately > HP often makes similar mistakes. > > High-end HP machines even have custom motherboards and a custom BIOS > (both created by HP for HP and with a specific OS in mind), although I > don't think the Pavilion is one of these machines. > First of all HP purchased Compaq a while ago, and when the sale was completed they dumped the Netserver line, servers from them are now HP Proliants. (Proliant was the Compaq line) The Netservers and Proliants in general never had touble with FreeBSD. Considering they certified them with Solaris/Netware/etc. they had to be pretty standard. Secondly, desktop systems from both vendors always sucked in this regard. Compaq even had the audacity one time to modify the Adaptec microcode for the AHA2740 scsi card for the Professional workstation line. > > Ideally, then, for something other than the pre-installed OS (such as > FreeBSD), you're probably better off buying an off-brand PC made from > off-the-shelf components, or building your own machine yourself. Fine advice for low-end servers and desktops. Terrible for high-end servers unless you really, really know what your doing, and you understand that your total cost will be more than if you just buy a turnkey server from someone. And rather impossible for laptops. Ted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Choosing to install turns off laptop. HD is untouched.
bsdnooby writes: > When I try to install FreeBSD, my brand new HP Pavilion laptop turns > itself off. While it's rather late for me to make this observation, I find that computers from big-name vendors tend to show a great deal of interdependence between the pre-installed OS and the hardware. The vendors often design the systems around the assumption that the pre-installed OS (normally Windows) will be the one and only OS on the machine. There may be tweaks in the OEM installation of the OS that accommodate tweaks in the hardware, or vice versa. Because of this, it can be very problematic to wipe the disk on such a machine and install a new one. It should always be possible, but the amount of effort required to get it working may sometimes be substantial. I've seen server machines afflicted in the same way. Compaq has long had a habit of messing around with this sort of thing, and unfortunately HP often makes similar mistakes. High-end HP machines even have custom motherboards and a custom BIOS (both created by HP for HP and with a specific OS in mind), although I don't think the Pavilion is one of these machines. Worse yet, some BIOS show the same tendency, although at least in that case you can usually enter the BIOS at boot and undo whatever the defaults are set for Windows. Ideally, then, for something other than the pre-installed OS (such as FreeBSD), you're probably better off buying an off-brand PC made from off-the-shelf components, or building your own machine yourself. This is what I did for my server, and I was pleasantly surprised when it booted up instantly into FreeBSD as soon as I installed my existing disk drive from the old server (although I reinstalled the OS, anyway, in order to make sure it corresponded exactly to the new hardware configuration). -- Anthony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Choosing to install turns off laptop. HD is untouched.
Hi, When I try to install FreeBSD, my brand new HP Pavilion laptop turns itself off. It does not matter if I use 4.x or 5.x, CD or floppies. There is no error log since it just shuts off after I choose to load a kernel. I have tried loading with ACPI off, and it does not help. I believe I tried all the kernel options available from the menu on 5.x. The computer is a HP Pavilion zv5445us, with 512MB RAM, P4-3Ghz, 100GB HD, 15.4" Hi-Def Screen, 54G 802.11b WLAN. I purchased it from Best Buy. Under Windows, it appears Hyper-Threading is turned on, and I have not found a way to turn it off inside the CMOS. The machine runs Windows XP Pro fine, but I am trying to switch to FreeBSD on all my boxen. I was really surprised to find this one abruptly shutdown when trying to do the install. It turns off before the install really starts, so I do not have much information to solve this problem. The HD is never touched. Any suggestions? -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.7 - Release Date: 2/10/2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?
i have one and its been great except that it came with macafee virus protector which was horrible. it made my laptop act up but as soon as i got rid of it everything was perfect. i got it in december. its got a lovely screen and the mouse and keyboard are excellent. i looked around in my class and 3 ppl had the same laptop and they seemed pretty happy with it. also, the wireless internet has been fine from the begining. i dont know if u have specific questions about it but if u do let me know. take care, donna ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: xf86config for Toshiba satellite pro laptop
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Oliver Fuchs wrote: > On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Riaan de Klerk wrote: > > > hi there i am stuck i have a older auwa laptop and cant find the s3 savage > > 86c270 video driver for it. > > could you be as kind as to assist me in finding it. > > > > Kind regards. > > Using FreeBSD 5.3 (?) depending on what you want to use try: > > Xorg -configure > Xorg -config xorg.conf.new > cp xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf > > or > > XFree86 -configure > XFree86 -xf86config XF86Config.new > cp XF86Config.new /etc/X11/XF86Config > > The s3 savage video driver is supported. The main part in the config file should look like this: Section "Device" ### Available Driver options are:- ### Values: : integer, : float, : "True"/"False", ### : "String", : " Hz/kHz/MHz" ### [arg]: arg optional #Option "NoAccel" # [] #Option "HWCursor" # [] #Option "SWCursor" # [] #Option "ShadowFB" # [] #Option "Rotate"# [] #Option "UseBIOS" # [] #Option "LCDClock" # #Option "ShadowStatus" # [] #Option "CrtOnly" # [] #Option "TvOn" # [] #Option "PAL" # [] #Option "ForceInit" # [] Identifier "Card0" Driver "savage" VendorName "S3 Inc." BoardName "86C270-294 Savage/IX-MV" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" EndSection Oliver -- ... don't touch the bang bang fruit ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: xf86config for Toshiba satellite pro laptop
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Riaan de Klerk wrote: > hi there i am stuck i have a older auwa laptop and cant find the s3 savage > 86c270 video driver for it. > could you be as kind as to assist me in finding it. > > Kind regards. Using FreeBSD 5.3 (?) depending on what you want to use try: Xorg -configure Xorg -config xorg.conf.new cp xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf or XFree86 -configure XFree86 -xf86config XF86Config.new cp XF86Config.new /etc/X11/XF86Config The s3 savage video driver is supported. Oliver -- ... don't touch the bang bang fruit ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
xf86config for Toshiba satellite pro laptop
hi there i am stuck i have a older auwa laptop and cant find the s3 savage 86c270 video driver for it. could you be as kind as to assist me in finding it. Kind regards. Riaan de Klerk CEOS Sales Representative Tel:(011) 792-2279 Fax:(011) 792-2488 Cell: 083-730-1427 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Charlene: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boskruin Business Park Unit 11 Bosbok Road Randpark Ridge x58 This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. Dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail or the information herein by anyone other than the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, is prohibited. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Set up of Wireless on laptop
On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 12:36:41PM +, Mick Walker wrote: > Hi all, > I have bought myself a wireless network card (Linksys WPC11 VER 3), it > is detected by the kernel and it shows up in ifconfig as wi0. > However I cant seem to get it to work, I have followed the instructions > in the hand book, it works fine if I disable wep on the wireless access > point, however with it enabled it doesn't work at all. > Could someone give me a brief outline of how to get wep working? > If you need any other data, I would be happy to help. You need to issue a command like ifconfig wi0 ssid "whatever it is" wepmode on wepkey 0xsomehexstring then wait about 15 seconds (the docs say 5, but that's too short in my experience) and then dhcpclient wi0 unless you are hardcoding the IP address, in which case, include that on the ifconig line with "inet oct1.oct2.oct3.oct4 netmask oct5.oct6.oct7.oct8" in addition to the other parameters above. I don't know how to use Wep pass phrases, 'cause I don't use them. I think the pass phrases just provides data to munge to generate the keys. I use it - I love it - I'll be glad to help any way I can. -- John Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Set up of Wireless on laptop
On Jan 16, 2005, at 6:36 AM, Mick Walker wrote: Hi all, I have bought myself a wireless network card (Linksys WPC11 VER 3), it is detected by the kernel and it shows up in ifconfig as wi0. However I cant seem to get it to work, I have followed the instructions in the hand book, it works fine if I disable wep on the wireless access point, however with it enabled it doesn't work at all. Could someone give me a brief outline of how to get wep working? If you need any other data, I would be happy to help. Thanks Mick For example, try something similar to this: ifconfig wi0 inet 192.168.0.20 netmask 0xff00 ssid my_net wepmode on wepkey 0x8736639624 For more information, see man 4 wi HTH ___ Eric F Crist "I am so smart, S.M.R.T!" Secure Computing Networks -Homer J Simpson PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Set up of Wireless on laptop
Mick Walker wrote: Hi all, I have bought myself a wireless network card (Linksys WPC11 VER 3), it is detected by the kernel and it shows up in ifconfig as wi0. However I cant seem to get it to work, I have followed the instructions in the hand book, it works fine if I disable wep on the wireless access point, however with it enabled it doesn't work at all. Could someone give me a brief outline of how to get wep working? If you need any other data, I would be happy to help. Thanks Mick Mick, Try something like this in /etc/rc.conf ifconfig_wi0="inet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask 255.255.255.xxx ssid SOMESSID wepmode on wepkey 0xXX Where SOMESSIS is the name of your WAP and where the 0xXX is the wep key (128 in this case) -- Best regards, Chris A $300.00 picture tube will protect a 10c fuse by blowing first. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Set up of Wireless on laptop
Hi all, I have bought myself a wireless network card (Linksys WPC11 VER 3), it is detected by the kernel and it shows up in ifconfig as wi0. However I cant seem to get it to work, I have followed the instructions in the hand book, it works fine if I disable wep on the wireless access point, however with it enabled it doesn't work at all. Could someone give me a brief outline of how to get wep working? If you need any other data, I would be happy to help. Thanks Mick ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: switching key mappings on a laptop (function and ctrl)
Joe Schmoe wrote: I have a new laptop that has the FN (function) key in the very lower left, and the CTRL key one key to the right of it ... but I like the CTRL key to be in the far lower left ... Is it possible to switch the function of these two keys (not just in X, but in the console, virtual terminals, etc.) Yes, this is certainly possible. In fact, there are two separate mechanisms for doing this -- one for use under X-win, the other for use under the console. Under X, see xmodmap(1) and the sections in X(7) on keyboards, and these other man pages: % man -k xkb setxkbmap(1) - set the keyboard using the X Keyboard Extension xkbcomp(1) - compile XKB keyboard description xkbevd(1)- XKB event daemon xkbprint(1) - print an XKB keyboard description For modifying the console see kdbcontrol(1), kbdmap(1), kbdmap(5) -- the keymap files in /usr/share/syscons/keymaps are pretty easy to understand and create customised versions of. See also the allscreens_kbdflags variable in /etc/defaults/rc.conf for how to get your changes to happen automatically on reboot. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 8 Dane Court Manor School Rd PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Tilmanstone Tel: +44 1304 617253 Kent, CT14 0JL UK signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
switching key mappings on a laptop (function and ctrl)
I have a new laptop that has the FN (function) key in the very lower left, and the CTRL key one key to the right of it ... but I like the CTRL key to be in the far lower left ... Is it possible to switch the function of these two keys (not just in X, but in the console, virtual terminals, etc.) thanks. __ Do you Yahoo!? All your favorites on one personal page Try My Yahoo! http://my.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
laptop won't boot past 2.1x
I have a laptop that I originally installed 5.2.1 on. When 5.3 came out, I installed it immediately, only to find that the boot hung at detecting my ATA cd-rw/dvd drive. Verbose mode stops at: GEOM: Configure ad0s1 start ... length ... end ... GEOM: Configure ad0s2[a-f] start ... length ... end ... (Sorry, there's no serial port on the laptop. I can type it out by hand if need be, though.) With the latest stable and atapicam/pass/cd built in, it ends with lines similar to: (probe[0-5]:...) error 22 (probe[0-5]:...) Unretryable error Otherwise, it ends with the same GEOM: Configure lines I have tried the latest HEAD as a FreesBIE disk and have gotten the same results. A FreesBIE -CURRENT from around the time of the 5.2.1 release works, initializing pass0 right after the error22 lines. Any suggestions on the problem or how to clarify it? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?
Tom Vilot wrote: Eric Schuele wrote: I purchased mine from: http://www.pcdgloabl.com Which as luck would have it is within a mile of my office. So I just drove over there. Terrific. 1. Mis-type of the url: it is actually http://www.pcdglobal.com :) Yes.. thanks for correcting. 2. Which model do you have? The Mini-PCI 802.11b/g AR5004? I purchased the 802.11a/b/g AR5004:5213+5112. I have not been able to test the 802.11a... but b/g work just fine. For whatever reason (someone may be able to answer) the card is detected as 5212a/b/g by ath. Works fine so I'm happy. ath0: mem 0xfafe-0xfafe irq 11 at device 2.0 on pci2 ath0: mac 5.9 phy 4.3 5ghz radio 3.6 ath0: Ethernet address: 00:00:00:00:00:00 ath0: 11a rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps ath0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps ath0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps The prices I was quoted when I purchased: Cost for the modules are: Part Number Description Qty Price T60H835.00 802.11a/b/g Mini - PCI Module 1 - 9 pcs $75.00 (Atheros:AR5213+AR5112) 40 pcs $55.00 T60H786.00 802.11b/g Mini - PCI Module1 - 9 pcs $65.00 (Atheros:AR5213+AR2112) 40 pcs $45.00 They (Chris Bartlett) were nice enough to give me the 40pc price for a single. DO NOTE: They told me they do not do returns... also.. there was no packing. They reached into a closed with thousands of them... wrapped the miniPCI in bubble wrap and handed it to me. So there may be no docs/support or anything. They apparently sell to OEM. I didn't need anything but the card... so it didn't bother me. HTH ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- Regards, Eric ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?
On Friday, 7 January 2005 at 9:46:23 +1100, John Birrell wrote: > On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 04:52:43PM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> I'm thinking of buying a Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop. I have a number >> of Dells, and on the whole I'm happy, but I've had "issues" before. >> Can anybody who has one of these machines (1150 only, please) tell me >> good or bad things about it? Have you been able to get the internal >> wireless card to work? > > I have an 1150 and it works great with RELENG_5 for me. I don't have the > version with the internal wireless though. I use the bfe (Broadcom BCM4401) > ethernet. No problems with that. Thanks for the info. > If you get one, go straight to Dell's support site and get the > latest bios. I had to do that before X would work. There have been > a few bios updates and my 1150 was shipped with an out-dated bios > which I thought lacked attention to detail by Dell when they build > the machines to order in Malaysia. Interesting. I had a similar problem with my 5150 18 months ago (see http://www.lemis.com/grog/diary-jul2003.html#25 for details). Is this what you saw? > Once thing I really like about it is being able to set the bios to > boot via the ethernet port. That makes net-booting FreeBSD for > driver development a breeze. That sounds useful, indeed. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. pgpakaZFNBVBO.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 04:52:43PM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > I'm thinking of buying a Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop. I have a number > of Dells, and on the whole I'm happy, but I've had "issues" before. > Can anybody who has one of these machines (1150 only, please) tell me > good or bad things about it? Have you been able to get the internal > wireless card to work? I have an 1150 and it works great with RELENG_5 for me. I don't have the version with the internal wireless though. I use the bfe (Broadcom BCM4401) ethernet. No problems with that. If you get one, go straight to Dell's support site and get the latest bios. I had to do that before X would work. There have been a few bios updates and my 1150 was shipped with an out-dated bios which I thought lacked attention to detail by Dell when they build the machines to order in Malaysia. I got a CD R/W and DVD R and that works fine. USB2.0 ports function well as does sound. Whenever I watch videos, I choose to use the 1150 for that. Obviously the winmodem doesn't work with FreeBSD. That's the only device that isn't recognised during boot. Once thing I really like about it is being able to set the bios to boot via the ethernet port. That makes net-booting FreeBSD for driver development a breeze. I run RELENG_5 installed on the hard disk and net-boot to CURRENT. If I remember correctly, it took me about 10 minutes to get XP off it and FreeBSD on. -- John Birrell ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?
Eric Schuele wrote: I purchased mine from: http://www.pcdgloabl.com Which as luck would have it is within a mile of my office. So I just drove over there. Terrific. 1. Mis-type of the url: it is actually http://www.pcdglobal.com :) 2. Which model do you have? The Mini-PCI 802.11b/g AR5004? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?
Tom Vilot wrote: Eric Schuele wrote: On the other hand... I've switched to an Atheros based miniPCI card which works quite well with 'device ath'. I can give you a link if your interested. I might be interested in one of those. I have a Dell Inspiron 8200. I purchased mine from: http://www.pcdgloabl.com Which as luck would have it is within a mile of my office. So I just drove over there. DO NOTE: They have no return policy, as they prefer to cater to OEMs. But I've been very happy with mine. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- Regards, Eric ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Wednesday, 5 January 2005 at 11:20:31 -0600, Eric Schuele wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: I'm thinking of buying a Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop. I have a number of Dells, and on the whole I'm happy, but I've had "issues" before. Can anybody who has one of these machines (1150 only, please) tell me good or bad things about it? Have you been able to get the internal wireless card to work? My point is... you may have to use the windows drivers with a wrapper to get it to work. Yes, that was my suspicion as well, and one of the reasons for my question. On the other hand... I've switched to an Atheros based miniPCI card which works quite well with 'device ath'. I can give you a link if your interested. Thanks, but no. I have wireless cards here. I was wondering about the onboard card. I was referring to the internal onboard (miniPCI) card. You could purchase the laptop without one (if that's an option) and then drop in your own. I chose an Atheros based one... but there are Prism based ones floating around as well. So you might dig around and try to find out positively whose card those miniPCI devices are. That's what I'm trying to do, and also (if possible) get more details about how to get them running. I can give you very specific instruction on how I got the 1300 (Broadcom) working with 5.2.1... but I don't think thats what your after. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. -- Regards, Eric ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?
Eric Schuele wrote: On the other hand... I've switched to an Atheros based miniPCI card which works quite well with 'device ath'. I can give you a link if your interested. I might be interested in one of those. I have a Dell Inspiron 8200. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?
On Wednesday, 5 January 2005 at 11:20:31 -0600, Eric Schuele wrote: > Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> I'm thinking of buying a Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop. I have a number >> of Dells, and on the whole I'm happy, but I've had "issues" before. >> Can anybody who has one of these machines (1150 only, please) tell me >> good or bad things about it? Have you been able to get the internal >> wireless card to work? > > My point is... you may have to use the windows drivers with a wrapper to > get it to work. Yes, that was my suspicion as well, and one of the reasons for my question. > On the other hand... I've switched to an Atheros based miniPCI card > which works quite well with 'device ath'. I can give you a link if > your interested. Thanks, but no. I have wireless cards here. I was wondering about the onboard card. > So you might dig around and try to find out positively whose card > those miniPCI devices are. That's what I'm trying to do, and also (if possible) get more details about how to get them running. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. pgpY7KMsonFdJ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?
[Resequenced, time: 40 seconds. See http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Wednesday, 5 January 2005 at 19:24:27 +0100, Kiffin Gish wrote: > On Wednesday, January 05, 2005 07:23, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> >> I'm thinking of buying a Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop. I have a number >> of Dells, and on the whole I'm happy, but I've had "issues" before. >> Can anybody who has one of these machines (1150 only, please) tell me >> good or bad things about it? Have you been able to get the internal >> wireless card to work? > > I've been the happy owner of a Dell Inspiron 8200 with a TrueMobile > wireless card. I suppose it's the out of sequence reply that made you miss: >> Can anybody who has one of these machines (1150 only, please) tell me > Dual boot Windows/XP and FreeBSD 5.3, and so far never had any major > issues. > > Hope this helps... Not really. As I said, I have other Dell laptops, and on the whole I'm happy. I'm looking for input on the 1150. Thanks anyway. Greg -- When replying to this message, please take care not to mutilate the original text. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/email.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. pgpIzkAvDNTxh.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?
I've been the happy owner of a Dell Inspiron 8200 with a TrueMobile wireless card. Dual boot Windows/XP and FreeBSD 5.3, and so far never had any major issues. Hope this helps... -- Kiffin Rex Gish Gouda, The Netherlands > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg 'groggy' Lehey > Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 07:23 > To: FreeBSD mobile Mailing List; FreeBSD Questions > Subject: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop? > > I'm thinking of buying a Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop. I have a number > of Dells, and on the whole I'm happy, but I've had "issues" before. > Can anybody who has one of these machines (1150 only, please) tell me > good or bad things about it? Have you been able to get the internal > wireless card to work? > > Greg > -- > See complete headers for address and phone numbers. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: I'm thinking of buying a Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop. I have a number of Dells, and on the whole I'm happy, but I've had "issues" before. Can anybody who has one of these machines (1150 only, please) tell me good or bad things about it? Have you been able to get the internal wireless card to work? Greg FWIW I think the 1150 ships with either a truemobile 1350 or 1450 (your choice). It's my understanding (from a quick google) that those are still broadcom devices. I had a Truemobile 1300 (Broadcom), and had to use NDISulator to get it running. That was with 5.2.1. Haven't looked into it much but I think NDIS is built into the kernel now?? Not sure. My point is... you may have to use the windows drivers with a wrapper to get it to work. It worked well... but I was running from windows to begin with. On the other hand... I've switched to an Atheros based miniPCI card which works quite well with 'device ath'. I can give you a link if your interested. So you might dig around and try to find out positively whose card those miniPCI devices are. HTH -- Regards, Eric ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?
On Wednesday, 5 January 2005 at 11:19:16 +, Sarunas Vancevicius wrote: > On 16:52, Wed 05 Jan 05, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> I'm thinking of buying a Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop. I have a number >> of Dells, and on the whole I'm happy, but I've had "issues" before. >> Can anybody who has one of these machines (1150 only, please) tell me >> good or bad things about it? Have you been able to get the internal >> wireless card to work? > > A college friend has one of these, I don't know much about it, > except that he is running Fedora Core 3 and had no luck trying to > get internal wireless card working, so he had to get a PCMCIA > wireless card. Thanks. > If thats any helpful to you. Well, Fedora Core 3 is Linux. As it happens, at work I've just installed it too. I don't think a failure there has much relevance to FreeBSD. But thanks for the feedback. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. pgppt88KAuHYj.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?
On 16:52, Wed 05 Jan 05, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > I'm thinking of buying a Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop. I have a number > of Dells, and on the whole I'm happy, but I've had "issues" before. > Can anybody who has one of these machines (1150 only, please) tell me > good or bad things about it? Have you been able to get the internal > wireless card to work? > > Greg Hey Greg, A college friend has one of these, I don't know much about it, except that he is running Fedora Core 3 and had no luck trying to get internal wireless card working, so he had to get a PCMCIA wireless card. If thats any helpful to you. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?
I'm thinking of buying a Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop. I have a number of Dells, and on the whole I'm happy, but I've had "issues" before. Can anybody who has one of these machines (1150 only, please) tell me good or bad things about it? Have you been able to get the internal wireless card to work? Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. pgpxzja51vNAe.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Help on Compaq Laptop Presario 3000 AMD Athlon 64
Hello, I also try freebsd-5.21 i386 still have the same problem. I boot openBSD-i386 , the system freezed. Boot openBSD-AMD64 OK but openBSD does not support nVIDIA GeFORCE.xx so No graphic display at all .. It seems HP-compag presario R3240CA model ( athlon 64 AMD ) is not a good disigned ... I like FreeBSD it's easier to install than OpenDSD or NetBSD. It seems HP works well on Sesu linux from Novell. Do you have any ideas what I need to make the system works? Thanks Khai Dao ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Help on Compaq Laptop Presario 3000 AMD Athlon 64 -Nvida-gforce3 chipset
Kangaroo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I need help on instaling freebsd 5.3 AMD64 on my lap top. > > When I boot from cd rom, The system boot up to menu screen > show 1...7 where 2 eg. boot with disable ACPI... > My system automatically shutdown when I press any key from > 1 or 7 or just press enter. I mean it SHUTDOWN my machine. There is a possibility that the machine contains various components which are not fully supported in FreeBSD/amd64. What happens if you try booting FreeBSD/i386 instead? I know this may not be the most satisfying suggestion, but if it's that or not getting the machine to boot at all, well, there it is. I'd venture a guess that whichever software came with the machine originally is not quite 64 bit clean either. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ "First, we kill all the spammers" The Usenet Bard, "Twice-forwarded tales" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Help on Compaq Laptop Presario 3000 AMD Athlon 64 -Nvida-gforce3 chipset
I need help on instaling freebsd 5.3 AMD64 on my lap top. When I boot from cd rom, The system boot up to menu screen show 1...7 where 2 eg. boot with disable ACPI... My system automatically shutdown when I press any key from 1 or 7 or just press enter. I mean it SHUTDOWN my machine. What is wrong... I have follow the instruction from the web I need to disbale some IO.. from BIOS. But my bios has no option to do that. Is any one has the same LAPTOP I have? HELP!!! Thanks [EMAIL PROTECTED] Khai ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Help w/ 3com net card on laptop
I'm attempting to install FreeBSD 5.3 on an extra laptop I have over FTP, but I have just one problem: I cannot get the card to work. It's a 3com 3c575TX Fast Ehterlink XL Cardbus PC Card , which from here: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3...6.html#ETHERNET <http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/hardware-i386.html#ETHERNET> ..looks like FreeBSD should support it. The error goes something like this: xl0: 3com 3c575TX Fast Etherlink XL Port 0x1000-0x103f IRQ5 at device 0.0 on cardbus 0 xl0: couldn't map ports/memory device-attach: xl0 attach Returned 6 cbb0: cardbus card activation failed I've messed w/ the settings in the BIOS, ACPI is off, seems like the only way to turn off PnP is to change the OS - this BIOS is goofy. I disabled the COM and LPT ports to see if that would free up some IRQ's but no difference. Any suggestions? TIA, D ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Toshiba laptop
I would first like to report (as I'm sure many others have done) the inability to boot without going to the loader command prompt and setting hw.pci.enable_io_modes=0 Secondly, loading my sound module kills the system (trap 12). This is the exact text I copied from the screen: #kldload snd_ich.ko pcm0: at device 31.5 on pci0 Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode fault virtual address = 0x5 fault code= supervisor read, page not present instruction pointer= 0x8:0xc04f3d20 stack pointer = 0x10:0xcbca7930 frame pointer = 0x10:0xcbca7930 code segment = base 0x0, limit 0xf, type 0x1b = DPL 0, pres 1, de/32 1, gran 1 processor eflags = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL=0 current process = 482 (kldload) trap number = 12 panic: page fault I have attached my kernel configuration file, my dmesg, and the results of pciconf -l -v >From the looks of it, since the stack and frame pointers are the same, it would appear it's trying to call another function it cannot find (page not present) -- at least if x86 works like I seem to remember SPARC working. I'm thinking that perhaps kldload actually fails to load the driver, and then tries to call a function in it anyway? I don't know. I'm going to continue fiddling with it. Also posting to -questions in case I missed something stupid. Please CC me as I'm not part of either mailing list RASKOLNIKOV Description: Binary data dmesg Description: Binary data pciconf Description: Binary data ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Dell WLAN 1450 laptop wireless card driver needed
Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Friday, December 24, 2004 7:56 PM -0600 Scott Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I did. The only Dell card listed is the Dell TrueMobile 1150, which I think is a fairly old card that Dell no longer sells. Dell's recent catalogues list only the Intel PRO Wireless 2100 and 2200, the Dell Wireless 1350 and 1450, and the Dell TrueMobile 300 Bluetooth. The Dell Wireless 1450, which is the card I'm trying to get to work, is made by Broadcom, and I think Broadcom makes the chips on it as well. The wi driver is for a different manufacturer's chip set, so my guess is that the wi driver is not applicable to the Dell Wireless 1450. I hate to say this, but I don't think your card is supported. It's not listed in the HCL, even for 5.3, and it doesn't even look like there are linux drivers for it yet. On the other hand, you may just be able to use it with the ndisulator. That's a wrapper around a windows native driver for the card that lets you turn it into a FreeBSD loadable kernel object. You should be running 5.3-RELEASE or later for best results. See ndiscvt(8) and this message (you can ignore all the stuff about anon-cvs and building the supporting applications -- the NDIS stuff is standard in 5.3, and all you need to do is run ndiscvt and build your if_ndis module) http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-August/056835.html Also, this site is very useful if you're trying to get a laptop working under FreeBSD: http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/ Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 8 Dane Court Manor School Rd PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Tilmanstone Tel: +44 1304 617253 Kent, CT14 0JL UK signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Dell WLAN 1450 laptop wireless card driver needed
--On Friday, December 24, 2004 7:56 PM -0600 Scott Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I did. The only Dell card listed is the Dell TrueMobile 1150, which I think is a fairly old card that Dell no longer sells. Dell's recent catalogues list only the Intel PRO Wireless 2100 and 2200, the Dell Wireless 1350 and 1450, and the Dell TrueMobile 300 Bluetooth. The Dell Wireless 1450, which is the card I'm trying to get to work, is made by Broadcom, and I think Broadcom makes the chips on it as well. The wi driver is for a different manufacturer's chip set, so my guess is that the wi driver is not applicable to the Dell Wireless 1450. I hate to say this, but I don't think your card is supported. It's not listed in the HCL, even for 5.3, and it doesn't even look like there are linux drivers for it yet. Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Dell WLAN 1450 laptop wireless card driver needed
Paul Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote Fri Dec 24 16:25:40 2004: >--On Friday, December 24, 2004 1:54 PM -0600 Scott Bennett ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'm looking for a driver that supports the Dell Wireless WLAN 1450 >> Dual- Band card for laptops. If anyone can point me in the right >> direction, please let me know. > >It's probably the wi driver, which should be in the default build of >"modern" FreeBSD. I don't think so, or at least it isn't obvious that that would be the right one. > >Look at man wi(4) and man wicontrol(8). I did. The only Dell card listed is the Dell TrueMobile 1150, which I think is a fairly old card that Dell no longer sells. Dell's recent catalogues list only the Intel PRO Wireless 2100 and 2200, the Dell Wireless 1350 and 1450, and the Dell TrueMobile 300 Bluetooth. The Dell Wireless 1450, which is the card I'm trying to get to work, is made by Broadcom, and I think Broadcom makes the chips on it as well. The wi driver is for a different manufacturer's chip set, so my guess is that the wi driver is not applicable to the Dell Wireless 1450. > >What do you see when you type "% wicontrol -i wi0 -o"? > wicontrol: SIOCGWAVELAN: Device not configured Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ** * Internet: bennett at cs.niu.edu * ** * "A well regulated and disciplined militia, is at all times a good * * objection to the introduction of that bane of all free governments * * -- a standing army." * *-- Gov. John Hancock, New York Journal, 28 January 1790 * ** ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Dell WLAN 1450 laptop wireless card driver needed
--On Friday, December 24, 2004 1:54 PM -0600 Scott Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm looking for a driver that supports the Dell Wireless WLAN 1450 Dual- Band card for laptops. If anyone can point me in the right direction, please let me know. It's probably the wi driver, which should be in the default build of "modern" FreeBSD. Look at man wi(4) and man wicontrol(8). What do you see when you type "% wicontrol -i wi0 -o"? Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Dell WLAN 1450 laptop wireless card driver needed
I'm looking for a driver that supports the Dell Wireless WLAN 1450 Dual- Band card for laptops. If anyone can point me in the right direction, please let me know. Thanks in advance! Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ** * Internet: bennett at cs.niu.edu * ** * "A well regulated and disciplined militia, is at all times a good * * objection to the introduction of that bane of all free governments * * -- a standing army." * *-- Gov. John Hancock, New York Journal, 28 January 1790 * ** ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: problem with X in a laptop
"[EMAIL PROTECTED] " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > the video card is a silicon motion, but the driver doesnt work, > so i used a generic VGA. > Now im using FreeBSD 5.3 with Xorg, but before i was using > debian with XF86 and i had the same problem, but i fixed it > startingthe X server with the "-dpi 100" but this now doesnt > work. You could always try XFree86 again; that certainly worked with the SiliconMotion video chip on my old HP laptop. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: problem with X in a laptop
the video card is a silicon motion, but the driver doesnt work, so i used a generic VGA. I gave up on trying to get this driver working. After tons of patches and other suggestions, It proved to be more trouble than it was worth. Time to get a new laptop I think. Sorry I cant be more helpful Regards, Frank Laszlo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
problem with X in a laptop
hi, im having problems configuring the X window system in a IBM thinkpad laptop. The servers starts ok, but the problem is that it doesnt fit the full screen. i dont know if you undrestand me, because my english is not very good. im gonna explain it with a picture: | | <= screen of my laptop | |---| | | | | | | | <== size of the X's screen | |---| | |-| the video card is a silicon motion, but the driver doesnt work, so i used a generic VGA. Now im using FreeBSD 5.3 with Xorg, but before i was using debian with XF86 and i had the same problem, but i fixed it startingthe X server with the "-dpi 100" but this now doesnt work. i also have used the xvfb server, but with this server doesnt work. any idea is welcome. thanks in advance. jcazor. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: installing bsd on a laptop
How 'bout this one? http://news.google.com/news?q=walmart+laptop Start Here to Find It Fast! -> http://www.US-Webmasters.com/best-start-page/ $8.77 Domain Names -> http://domains.us-webmasters.com/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: installing bsd on a laptop
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, do you know of any laptop brands that can run freebsd or openbsd that is available to purchase??? The "FreeBSD Laptop Compatability List" at: http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/ will give you some information from about 450 other FreeBSD + laptop users. HTH, Kevin Kinsey ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: installing bsd on a laptop
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 04:54:09AM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > On Monday 20 December 2004 12:53 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > hello, do you know of any laptop brands that can run freebsd or > > openbsd that is available to purchase??? > > I was unable to get a Compaq's pccard working under FreeBSD 5.2.1 using > either the new or old pccard systems. I had no problems on a Dell > using FreeBSD 4.10 or 5.3. Not following up to Andrew, in particular, but to point out the "...a Dell (or Gateway or HP or whatever)..." is not very exact; and it may be helpful to indicate a model and /or number for any recommendation. For instance: http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/category.aspx/notebooks?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs shows several possible notebooks. Let's take this one: Inspiron 1150, with various features, including: Memory 256MB Shared DDR SDRAM, 1 Dimm which means that video fills its needs from system memory. Now, the issue here is that for lower end laptops that use shared memory and the Intel integrated graphics chip with a bios lock on memory allocation, you may end up w/o the ability to display in 1024x768 in X. So it may pay for anyone to check to see that the available memory is sufficient to provide a minimum comfortable resolution. Another example: http://products.gateway.com/products/GConfig/prodDetails.asp?system_id=m275x&seg=hm Midway down, you'll see this: Integrated Intel. Extreme Graphics 2 What does that mean, WRT resolution in X? I can't find out, easily (it's a JavaScript thing). It is likely that it has enough memory for 1024x768 or even a finer resolution; but it would be a good idea to make sure, IMO. In short, I would recommend that you get as much detail from the vendor as you can; and don't assume that because it is a modern machine and some models in a brand do work very well with FreeBSD that any given model will work well with FreeBSD. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: installing bsd on a laptop
On Monday 20 December 2004 06:46 am, Tom Vilot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] extolled: > > > hello, do you know of any laptop brands that can run freebsd or > > > openbsd that is available to purchase??? > > I have FreeBSD 5.3 running beautifully on a Dell Inspiron 8200. I have FreeBSD 5.3 running on a Dell Inspiron 3500. IIRC there weren't any problems with the install, but I had to compile in support for my cardbus and ethernet. Since it's just a 300MHz with 128MB, I didn't install xorg at all, but I know from previous experimentation that it will run a smaller wm or desktop alright (xfce4 or smaller), but KDE or Gnome run very slow. I don't really need a gui desktop on it, and it's (generally) quite fast without it. I am tinkering at getting the sound running, but it's not a priority. Haven't yet tried USB, but again it's not a priority. It works the way it is for my needs. You can probably find a used Dell in this model range for very cheap. I wouldn't go lower than the 3500, though, as lower than a 300MHz cpu might be pushing it as far as what you need. As someone else recommended, IBM Thinkpads are quite nice and will usually work, although a bit pricey. If you go that route, try to find a good used one. - jt ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: installing bsd on a laptop
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] extolled: > > hello, do you know of any laptop brands that can run freebsd or openbsd > > that > > is available to purchase??? I have FreeBSD 5.3 running beautifully on a Dell Inspiron 8200. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: installing bsd on a laptop
On Monday 20 December 2004 04:54 am, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > On Monday 20 December 2004 12:53 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > hello, do you know of any laptop brands that can run freebsd or > > openbsd that is available to purchase??? I just read about the website below at linuxtoday.com. The laptops are sold with Linspire by default (no Windows tax); but FreeBSD is one of the (ahem) "other linux distros" available. http://www.sub300.com/ I know nothing else about them; so I can neither recommend nor discourage doing business with them. Best of luck, Andrew ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
