Re: Centrino - Made for Microsoft Windows XP?
Hi there I have a dell D600 and FreeBSD works with no problem I think I had some problems with ACPI but then I fixed that prob. I dont have the intel wireless card I have the broadcom one and it works very nice with the patches from the Evil project (aka DNISulator) Jorge = _ Do You Yahoo!? Información de Estados Unidos y América Latina, en Yahoo! Noticias. Visítanos en http://noticias.espanol.yahoo.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Centrino - Made for Microsoft Windows XP?
I recently purchased a new laptop, an IBM X31 ThinkPad, which uses the Centrino processor. I had high expectations for this machine. Alas, my expectations have been shattered. All attempts at installing FreeBSD 5.2.1 quickly end with a crash. Interestingly, I have an old FBSD 4.8 CD - that installs fine. Lest anybody think my 5.2.1 CDR is bad, I went and downloaded it a second time, plus I also tried a network install. Failure every time. Nor is the problem limited to FreeBSD. MEPIS Linux crashes during the install as well. Knoppix Linux installed but dmesg was putting out lots of error messages (for example, it could not mount a journaled ext3 partition, so it mounted as ext2). In the end, I got Knoppix to install and run reliably only by using the older 2.4.26 kernel and by disabling APIC. After doing some Googling and seeing that others were having issues, my suspicion is that Centrino's power management features are to blame. But I could be wrong. So I guess my question is this: Has anybody here gotten FreeBSD 5.2.1 to install on a Centrino laptop? If so, did you need to do anything special to make it work? Any tips, tricks or hints I should try? Or should I just wait for FreeBSD 5.3 to come out and hope it works? Or should I file a PR? If others are not having problems with the Centrino chip, I might to back to IBM and demand that they replace the motherboard, but I tend to think they'll just tell me to reinstall Windows XP and all will be well. There is indeed a sticker on the laptop saying Made for Microsoft Windows XP (well, there was, I ripped the sticker off, but I still can't install FreeBSD). best regards, Robert ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Centrino - Made for Microsoft Windows XP?
On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 02:39:12PM +0800, Robert Storey wrote: So I guess my question is this: Has anybody here gotten FreeBSD 5.2.1 to install on a Centrino laptop? If so, did you need to do anything special to make it work? Any tips, tricks or hints I should try? Or should I just wait for FreeBSD 5.3 to come out and hope it works? Or should I file a PR? Well, I haven't tried FreeBSD on my Centrino-based machine but use Linux on it with no problem, as far as every day operation goes. Wireless networking is a little unreliable but still very usable. I use a 2.6 kernel. If I had another machine of the same type, I would try FreeBSD for you - not heard of anyone doing so though. -- Phil Reynolds o mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |L_ \ / Web: http://www.tinsleyviaduct.com/phil/ (_)- \/ Waltham 67, Emley Moor 69, Droitwich 79, Windows 95 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Centrino - Made for Microsoft Windows XP?
On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 02:39:12PM +0800, Robert Storey wrote: I recently purchased a new laptop, an IBM X31 ThinkPad, which uses the Centrino processor. I had high expectations for this machine. Alas, my expectations have been shattered. All attempts at installing FreeBSD 5.2.1 quickly end with a crash. Interestingly, I have an old FBSD 4.8 CD - that installs fine. Lest anybody think my 5.2.1 CDR is bad, I went and downloaded it a second time, plus I also tried a network install. Failure every time. ... My laptop is R40 with a centrino CPU. I bought it a year ago and began to use FreeBSD-current until now. Centrino is not a problem, and I can also use the wireless card with ndis module. I should say that 5.2 has a lot of great features and can support more new devices, but it is still not very stable. By the way, I didn't install 5.2 directly from CD, but upgraded from a 5.1 disc. -- Zeng Nan Simple is Beautiful. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Centrino - Made for Microsoft Windows XP?
[please wrap your lines at 80 chars; 72 would be very nice] On 2004-06-26T14:39:12+0800, Robert Storey wrote: I recently purchased a new laptop, an IBM X31 ThinkPad, which uses the Centrino processor. I had high expectations for this machine. Alas, my expectations have been shattered. All attempts at installing FreeBSD 5.2.1 quickly end with a crash. Interestingly, I have an old FBSD 4.8 CD - that installs fine. Lest anybody think my 5.2.1 CDR is bad, I went and downloaded it a second time, plus I also tried a network install. Failure every time. First, I would suggest posting this message to the mobile@ list, as you will surely get more hits over there. Second, I remember quite a few people talking about 5.2.1 on ThinkPads, and having to set the following in /boot/loader.conf: hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range=1 I hope that this helps. -- Mike perl -e 'print unpack(u,88V]N=%C=\!I;F9O(EN(AE861EG,*);' pgpYwWxcPfHib.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Centrino - Made for Microsoft Windows XP?
On Saturday 26 June 2004 02:39 am, Robert Storey wrote: I recently purchased a new laptop, an IBM X31 ThinkPad, which uses the Centrino processor. I had high expectations for this machine. Alas, my expectations have been shattered. All attempts at installing FreeBSD 5.2.1 quickly end with a crash. Interestingly, I have an old FBSD 4.8 CD - that installs fine. Lest anybody think my 5.2.1 CDR is bad, I went and downloaded it a second time, plus I also tried a network install. Failure every time. Nor is the problem limited to FreeBSD. MEPIS Linux crashes during the install as well. Knoppix Linux installed but dmesg was putting out lots of error messages (for example, it could not mount a journaled ext3 partition, so it mounted as ext2). In the end, I got Knoppix to install and run reliably only by using the older 2.4.26 kernel and by disabling APIC. After doing some Googling and seeing that others were having issues, my suspicion is that Centrino's power management features are to blame. But I could be wrong. So I guess my question is this: Has anybody here gotten FreeBSD 5.2.1 to install on a Centrino laptop? If so, did you need to do anything special to make it work? Any tips, tricks or hints I should try? Or should I just wait for FreeBSD 5.3 to come out and hope it works? Or should I file a PR? If others are not having problems with the Centrino chip, I might to back to IBM and demand that they replace the motherboard, but I tend to think they'll just tell me to reinstall Windows XP and all will be well. There is indeed a sticker on the laptop saying Made for Microsoft Windows XP (well, there was, I ripped the sticker off, but I still can't install FreeBSD). 5.2.1 Here on a Dell Inspiron 600M with Centrino. All OK ACPI-wise. Won't talk to my SCSI Adaptec 1460 card and won't talk to the internal wireless adapter. No special setup on 5.2.1. I had a Dell Inspiron 4000 before and lots of ACPI troubles. I had to select the #2 choice on the boot menu to even boot it. -- -Jim ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
