Re: Internal SD card reader, Dell laptop

2005-09-05 Thread Ben Paley
On Monday 05 September 2005 11:50, Roland Smith wrote: $ pciconf -lv snip/ [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

Re: Internal SD card reader, Dell laptop

2005-09-05 Thread Ben Paley
...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

Re: Internal SD card reader, Dell laptop

2005-09-05 Thread Roland Smith
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,

Re: Internal SD card reader, Dell laptop

2005-09-05 Thread Ben Paley
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

Re: FreeBSD on old laptop, installer panic

2005-08-25 Thread Jason Morgan
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

FreeBSD on old laptop, installer panic

2005-08-24 Thread Zac Berkowitz
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

Configuring XFree86 on a Asus L7200 laptop

2005-08-21 Thread shafini M.H.
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

Re: Laptop mode for FreeBSD

2005-07-27 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
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

Laptop mode for FreeBSD

2005-07-25 Thread Richard Lupton
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

laptop with another monitor X configuration

2005-07-18 Thread Lei CHEN
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

Re: how to install on laptop? video issue?

2005-06-20 Thread Dmitry Mityugov
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

RE: how to install on laptop? video issue?

2005-06-20 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-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

how to install on laptop? video issue?

2005-06-19 Thread Peter van der Linden
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

Interrupt storm in Compaq Presario Laptop

2005-05-21 Thread Simeon Nifos
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

sony laptop - xorg comes up in small box

2005-05-21 Thread jrb0234
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

Re: sony laptop - xorg comes up in small box

2005-05-21 Thread Tony Shadwick
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

Re: Toshiba Portégé 4000 laptop

2005-04-24 Thread Laurent Debacker
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

Toshiba Portégé 4000 laptop

2005-04-23 Thread Laurent Debacker
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: display, VGA 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,

Re: Toshiba Portégé 4000 laptop

2005-04-23 Thread Kevin Kinsey
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: display, VGA 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

Re: Toshiba Portégé 4000 laptop

2005-04-23 Thread Laurent Debacker
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

my ethernet to my laptop/getting the tcp/X11 socket up

2005-03-31 Thread Chuck Robey
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

Re: my ethernet to my laptop/getting the tcp/X11 socket up

2005-03-31 Thread wizlayer
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

Re: my ethernet to my laptop/getting the tcp/X11 socket up

2005-03-31 Thread Chuck Robey
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

Best way to handle network interfaces on a laptop?

2005-03-29 Thread Mac Mason
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

Re: Best way to handle network interfaces on a laptop?

2005-03-29 Thread Charles Swiger
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

RE: keyboard problem on laptop.

2005-03-10 Thread Dennis Crowley
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

Re: keyboard problem on laptop.

2005-03-09 Thread Nathan Kinkade
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

keyboard problem on laptop.

2005-03-08 Thread Dennis Crowley
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

Re: keyboard problem on laptop.

2005-03-08 Thread Jason Henson
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

asking for a help, about FreeBSD compatibility with HP nx9020 (Laptop)

2005-03-06 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 Bersnas U NSC P koordinatorius

Re: asking for a help, about FreeBSD compatibility with HP nx9020 (Laptop)

2005-03-06 Thread Volker Kindermann
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

Averatec 3200 Laptop Wireless?

2005-03-03 Thread Scorpion
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

Re: Averatec 3200 Laptop Wireless?

2005-03-03 Thread Pietro Cerutti
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

Re: Averatec 3200 Laptop Wireless?

2005-03-03 Thread Xavier Maillard
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

RE: Toshiba Satellite laptop

2005-02-26 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
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

RE: Toshiba Satellite laptop

2005-02-26 Thread Mike Jeays
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

Toshiba Satellite laptop

2005-02-25 Thread Mike Jeays
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

RE: Choosing to install turns off laptop. HD is untouched.

2005-02-19 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-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

RE: Choosing to install turns off laptop. HD is untouched.

2005-02-14 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-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

Re: Choosing to install turns off laptop. HD is untouched.

2005-02-14 Thread Anthony Atkielski
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

Re: Choosing to install turns off laptop. HD is untouched.

2005-02-14 Thread Fabian Anklam
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

Re: Choosing to install turns off laptop. HD is untouched.

2005-02-14 Thread Anthony Atkielski
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

Choosing to install turns off laptop. HD is untouched.

2005-02-13 Thread bsdnooby
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

Re: Choosing to install turns off laptop. HD is untouched.

2005-02-13 Thread Anthony Atkielski
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

Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?

2005-02-10 Thread Donna Memran
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

xf86config for Toshiba satellite pro laptop

2005-01-24 Thread Riaan de Klerk
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

Re: xf86config for Toshiba satellite pro laptop

2005-01-24 Thread Oliver Fuchs
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

Re: xf86config for Toshiba satellite pro laptop

2005-01-24 Thread Oliver Fuchs
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

Set up of Wireless on laptop

2005-01-16 Thread Mick Walker
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,

Re: Set up of Wireless on laptop

2005-01-16 Thread Chris
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

Re: Set up of Wireless on laptop

2005-01-16 Thread Eric F Crist
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

Re: Set up of Wireless on laptop

2005-01-16 Thread John
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,

Re: switching key mappings on a laptop (function and ctrl)

2005-01-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
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

switching key mappings on a laptop (function and ctrl)

2005-01-10 Thread Joe Schmoe
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

laptop won't boot past 2.1x

2005-01-09 Thread Kris Maglione
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

Re: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?

2005-01-06 Thread Tom Vilot
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?

Re: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?

2005-01-06 Thread John Birrell
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

Re: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?

2005-01-06 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
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

Re: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?

2005-01-06 Thread Eric Schuele
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

Re: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?

2005-01-05 Thread Sarunas Vancevicius
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

Re: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?

2005-01-05 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
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

Re: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?

2005-01-05 Thread Eric Schuele
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

RE: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?

2005-01-05 Thread Kiffin Gish
-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

Re: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?

2005-01-05 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[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

Re: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?

2005-01-05 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
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

Re: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?

2005-01-05 Thread Tom Vilot
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. ___

Re: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?

2005-01-05 Thread Eric Schuele
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

Re: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?

2005-01-05 Thread Eric Schuele
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:

Re: Help on Compaq Laptop Presario 3000 AMD Athlon 64

2005-01-04 Thread Kangaroo
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

Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?

2005-01-04 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
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

Re: Help on Compaq Laptop Presario 3000 AMD Athlon 64 -Nvida-gforce3 chipset

2005-01-03 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
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

Help on Compaq Laptop Presario 3000 AMD Athlon 64 -Nvida-gforce3 chipset

2005-01-02 Thread Kangaroo
... 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

Help w/ 3com net card on laptop

2004-12-31 Thread Dustin
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

Re: Dell WLAN 1450 laptop wireless card driver needed

2004-12-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
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

Toshiba laptop

2004-12-29 Thread Josh Ockert
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

Re: Dell WLAN 1450 laptop wireless card driver needed

2004-12-27 Thread Paul Schmehl
--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

Dell WLAN 1450 laptop wireless card driver needed

2004-12-24 Thread Scott Bennett
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

Re: Dell WLAN 1450 laptop wireless card driver needed

2004-12-24 Thread Paul Schmehl
--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

Re: Dell WLAN 1450 laptop wireless card driver needed

2004-12-24 Thread Scott Bennett
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

problem with X in a laptop

2004-12-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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

Re: problem with X in a laptop

2004-12-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
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

Re: installing bsd on a laptop

2004-12-20 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, Murray Taylor wrote: IBM Think pads seem to go ok -- 4.8, 4.9, 4.10 I've had better luck with 5.3 on my R31 - it recognises ACPI and the 32-bit CardBus slot, amongst others. Witl laptops you really want the latest, to support their weird hardware. -- Dave

Re: installing bsd on a laptop

2004-12-20 Thread Andrew L. Gould
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

Re: installing bsd on a laptop

2004-12-20 Thread David Landgren
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, do you know of any laptop brands that can run freebsd or openbsd that is available to purchase??? Available to purchase, I dunno. With older HP laptops I had no success with 5.2, but 4.10 was fine. I haven't tried 5.3 yet. When I say no success, I meant

Re: installing bsd on a laptop

2004-12-20 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hello, do you know of any laptop brands that can run freebsd or openbsd that is available to purchase??? I'm typing this on a Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo D 1840W running FreeBSD 5.3. Everything 'Just Worked', the only part of the X config I needed to do manually

Re: installing bsd on a laptop

2004-12-20 Thread Dan Kilbourne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] extolled: hello, do you know of any laptop brands that can run freebsd or openbsd that is available to purchase??? I can tell you that my Dell C640 worked right out of the box. Xorg -configure got all my X stuff correct (I just needed to set default color depth to my

Re: installing bsd on a laptop

2004-12-20 Thread Andrew L. Gould
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

Re: installing bsd on a laptop

2004-12-20 Thread Tom Vilot
[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

Re: installing bsd on a laptop

2004-12-20 Thread Joshua Tinnin
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

Re: installing bsd on a laptop

2004-12-20 Thread Joe Altman
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

Re: installing bsd on a laptop

2004-12-20 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
[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

Re: installing bsd on a laptop

2004-12-20 Thread W. D.
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installing bsd on a laptop

2004-12-19 Thread NathanKelly31
hello, do you know of any laptop brands that can run freebsd or openbsd that is available to purchase??? ___ [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

2004-12-19 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 20 December 2004 at 1:53:43 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, do you know of any laptop brands that can run freebsd or openbsd that is available to purchase??? I've had good results with Dell laptops. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients

Re: installing bsd on a laptop

2004-12-19 Thread Murray Taylor
On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 17:55, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Monday, 20 December 2004 at 1:53:43 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, do you know of any laptop brands that can run freebsd or openbsd that is available to purchase??? I've had good results with Dell laptops. Greg IBM

Re: installing bsd on a laptop

2004-12-19 Thread Karel Miklav
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, do you know of any laptop brands that can run freebsd or openbsd that is available to purchase??? IBM Thinkpads are fine also. But try before u buy, whatever your decision. Take a live cd (http://www.freesbie.org/) with you and test it as much as you can

Re: Screen usage... was: Xorg/laptop

2004-12-17 Thread Joe Altman
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 03:21:28PM -0500, Joe Altman wrote: snip I mentioned my laptop config, and here it is (or was): #font8x8=iso-8x8 #font8x14=iso-8x14 #font8x16=iso-8x16 #font8x8=iso02-8x8.fnt #allscreens_flags=80x60 And here is why it is likely to be useless for me: with things set

Re: Screen usage... was: Xorg/laptop

2004-12-13 Thread Doug Poland
running. It is a happy day indeed! Now for my next question - For some reason, FreeBSD and Xorg is only using a small square in the middle of the LCD screen. Any ideas on how I get it to use the full dimensions? On my Dell laptop I have a function key called Font. When I push that, my

Re: Screen usage... was: Xorg/laptop

2004-12-13 Thread Peter Risdon
Bomgardner,Jon wrote: -Original Message- From: Doug Poland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 8:54 AM To: Bomgardner,Jon Cc: Henry Miller; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Screen usage... was: Xorg/laptop snip For some reason, FreeBSD and Xorg is only using a small

Re: Screen usage... was: Xorg/laptop

2004-12-13 Thread Dan Kilbourne
use a laptop w/fbsd, and X has no issues running at 1024x768, but I am unsure also how to get the console to that resolution - I can stretch my default 640x480 (I think) to take up the whole screen, but it looks pretty awful -- ___ Dan ___ [EMAIL

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