Re: Wifi for Lenovo Laptop

2012-08-30 Thread Chris


 From: Waitman Gobble gobble...@gmail.com
To: Chris devnullacco...@yahoo.se 
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 6:51 PM
Subject: Re: Wifi for Lenovo Laptop
 


On Aug 29, 2012 8:44 AM, Chris devnullacco...@yahoo.se wrote:

 Hi,


 I've tried to search the lists but can't find anything, but please point me 
 to an existing resource if available.

 I recently got a Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E530 (3259-9VG) laptop and would like 
 to get the Wifi card running (fresh FreeBSD 9.0 install), but I'm failling 
 as it has been at least 5 years since I used with wifi under FreeBSD. The 
 card is not automatically detected (interface not listed in ifconfig) so I'm 
 assuming I have to either load a kernel module or go the NDIS path. It seems 
 like on Windows, the same driver is used for E430, E435, E530 and E535, so 
 in case anyone is using one of these models, please let me know if have 
 things running.

 So some questions that might point me in the right direction:

 - How can I find out which type of card this laptop actually has (can I read 
 it out of dmesg, some PCI listing or whatever)?
   All I can find are product sheets saying that it has 11b/g/n, but doesn't 
 help me to find a driver. I
   Is there some meta-module that loads all the native wifi drivers that I 
 can use that I can test?
 - If I need to use NDIS emulation, does anyone think it will work for this 
 model/card? Windows drivers can be found here 
 http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/product-and-parts/default.page).
   The handbook 
 (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/config-network-setup.html#CONFIG-NETWORK-NDIS)
  says I need Win XP drivers, is that old text or do I need that? I can't 
 find XP drivers on the lenovo page...
 - If NDIS should be possible, how do I extract the .sys and .inf file from 
 the exe that I downloaded from the URL above (I don't have any Windows 
 machine right now).

 TIA,
   Chris

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hi, you can usually find replacement wifi cards for your model on ebay, this 
can give you an idea of the chipset. 
also, you could always pull off the panel and look at the card.
ndis can be tricky because it needs an older 32 bit driver, and you need to 
run a 32 bit version of FreeBSD.
a good solution is to find a ralink or atheros card on ebay and swap it out, 
usually will cost less than 10 bucks USD.
Waitman Gobble
San Jose California USA




Hi Waltman, jb and Daniel,
(sorry for not replying to the latest email in the thread, something is wrong 
with my email account)

Thanks very much for the help, it is really appreciated.
I called Lenovo support and the only info they had was that it was an Intel 
card, so that's the same info as jb had tracked down (and I also found myself).

Using pciconf as per jb's hint tells me it is a broadcom I have:

none3@pci0:3:0:0:   class=0x028000 card=0x060814e4 chip=0x472714e4 rev=0x01 
hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation'
device = 'BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller'
class  = network


As per the release notes for 9.0 
(http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.0R/hardware.html#WLAN), the bwn(4) driver be 
the one to use.

Added the following to my /boot/loader.conf following the instructions in 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/network-wireless.html and rebooted.

if_bwn_load=YES
wlan_wep_load=YES
wlan_ccmp_load=YES
wlan_tkip_load=YES


(also tried the bwi(4) driver instead of bwn)

I still don't get anything in dmesg or ifconfig. So either I have missed some 
step, or this specific card isn't supported by the bwn/bwi drivers.
Anyone have any further ideas?
If not, I'll try to track down some USB WLAN card that is supported, as I've 
also heard the same thing as Daniel, i.e. that non-Lenovo cards are blocked by 
the BIOS if you try to replace the default one.

BR,
  Chris
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Re: Wifi for Lenovo Laptop

2012-08-30 Thread Warren Block

On Thu, 30 Aug 2012, Chris wrote:


Using pciconf as per jb's hint tells me it is a broadcom I have:

none3@pci0:3:0:0:   class=0x028000 card=0x060814e4 chip=0x472714e4 rev=0x01 
hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation'
device = 'BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller'
class  = network


As per the release notes for 9.0 
(http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.0R/hardware.html#WLAN), the bwn(4) driver be 
the one to use.

Added the following to my /boot/loader.conf following the instructions in 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/network-wireless.html and rebooted.

if_bwn_load=YES
wlan_wep_load=YES
wlan_ccmp_load=YES
wlan_tkip_load=YES


The last three are included in the GENERIC kernel.

The bwi and bwn drivers need firmware, which is provided by the 
net/bwi-firmware-kmod and net/bwn-firmware-kmod ports.  So install 
whichever is appropriate.  I think the driver tries to load the right
firmware automatically, but haven't tried a Broadcom in a while, and it 
might still be necessary to load the firmware module in 
/boot/loader.conf.

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Re: Wifi for Lenovo Laptop

2012-08-30 Thread Chris


- Original Message -
 From: Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com
 To: Chris devnullacco...@yahoo.se
 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Waitman 
 Gobble gobble...@gmail.com
 Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2012 3:58 PM
 Subject: Re: Wifi for Lenovo Laptop
 
 On Thu, 30 Aug 2012, Chris wrote:
 
  Using pciconf as per jb's hint tells me it is a broadcom I have:
 
  none3@pci0:3:0:0:       class=0x028000 card=0x060814e4 chip=0x472714e4 
 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
  vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
  device     = 'BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller'
  class      = network
 
 
  As per the release notes for 9.0 
 (http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.0R/hardware.html#WLAN), the bwn(4) driver 
 be 
 the one to use.
 
  Added the following to my /boot/loader.conf following the instructions in 
 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/network-wireless.html and 
 rebooted.
 
  if_bwn_load=YES
  wlan_wep_load=YES
  wlan_ccmp_load=YES
  wlan_tkip_load=YES
 
 The last three are included in the GENERIC kernel.
 
 The bwi and bwn drivers need firmware, which is provided by the 
 net/bwi-firmware-kmod and net/bwn-firmware-kmod ports.  So install 
 whichever is appropriate.  I think the driver tries to load the right
 firmware automatically, but haven't tried a Broadcom in a while, and it 
 might still be necessary to load the firmware module in 
 /boot/loader.conf.
 ___
 

Hi Warren,


thanks. Tried with the firmware as well but no better luck. On closer 
inspection of the bwn manual, it seems like the 4313 is not on the list of 
suppored versions.

What I did find though was that it is supposedly possible to get working using 
NDIS (even with amd64) as per this PC-BSD wiki page 
http://wiki.pcbsd.org/index.php/Wireless_Testing


I might try the NDIS, but will first see if I can find a USB card as the 'net 
seems to be full of talk about instability of the NDIS driver for the 4313.


Thanks to everyone for the help!


BR,

  Chris
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Re: Wifi for Lenovo Laptop

2012-08-30 Thread Waitman Gobble
On Aug 30, 2012 7:17 AM, Chris devnullacco...@yahoo.se wrote:



 - Original Message -
  From: Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com
  To: Chris devnullacco...@yahoo.se
  Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org freebsd-questions@freebsd.org;
Waitman Gobble gobble...@gmail.com
  Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2012 3:58 PM
  Subject: Re: Wifi for Lenovo Laptop
 
  On Thu, 30 Aug 2012, Chris wrote:
 
   Using pciconf as per jb's hint tells me it is a broadcom I have:
 
   none3@pci0:3:0:0:   class=0x028000 card=0x060814e4 chip=0x472714e4
  rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
   vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation'
   device = 'BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller'
   class  = network
 
 
   As per the release notes for 9.0
  (http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.0R/hardware.html#WLAN), the bwn(4)
driver be
  the one to use.
 
   Added the following to my /boot/loader.conf following the
instructions in
  http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/network-wireless.html and
rebooted.
 
   if_bwn_load=YES
   wlan_wep_load=YES
   wlan_ccmp_load=YES
   wlan_tkip_load=YES
 
  The last three are included in the GENERIC kernel.
 
  The bwi and bwn drivers need firmware, which is provided by the
  net/bwi-firmware-kmod and net/bwn-firmware-kmod ports.  So install
  whichever is appropriate.  I think the driver tries to load the right
  firmware automatically, but haven't tried a Broadcom in a while, and it
  might still be necessary to load the firmware module in
  /boot/loader.conf.
  ___
 

 Hi Warren,


 thanks. Tried with the firmware as well but no better luck. On closer
inspection of the bwn manual, it seems like the 4313 is not on the list of
suppored versions.

 What I did find though was that it is supposedly possible to get working
using NDIS (even with amd64) as per this PC-BSD wiki page
http://wiki.pcbsd.org/index.php/Wireless_Testing


 I might try the NDIS, but will first see if I can find a USB card as the
'net seems to be full of talk about instability of the NDIS driver for the
4313.


 Thanks to everyone for the help!


 BR,

   Chris
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it would be cool if the 4313 worked, i've got a couple of those sitting
around here. ill check out that link, thanks. as far as usb goes, I
recommend an ralink based device, like older d_link dongles. (i think
anything new on the shelf is using atheros, usb support not working afaik)
... all the usb ralink devices I found on ebay work perfectly. (there are
even some that have a boosted range of 3km lol)

as far as the bios whitelist, I have an hp with that kind of problem. there
are several ways around it, but they are all dirty/suspect. luckily I found
an ralink that sailed through the detection. you should be able to find out
what lenovo sells as replacement parts to get an idea of what they /approve/

Waitman Gobble
San Jose California
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Re: Wifi for Lenovo Laptop

2012-08-29 Thread Waitman Gobble
On Aug 29, 2012 8:44 AM, Chris devnullacco...@yahoo.se wrote:

 Hi,


 I've tried to search the lists but can't find anything, but please point
me to an existing resource if available.

 I recently got a Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E530 (3259-9VG) laptop and would
like to get the Wifi card running (fresh FreeBSD 9.0 install), but I'm
failling as it has been at least 5 years since I used with wifi under
FreeBSD. The card is not automatically detected (interface not listed in
ifconfig) so I'm assuming I have to either load a kernel module or go the
NDIS path. It seems like on Windows, the same driver is used for E430,
E435, E530 and E535, so in case anyone is using one of these models, please
let me know if have things running.

 So some questions that might point me in the right direction:

 - How can I find out which type of card this laptop actually has (can I
read it out of dmesg, some PCI listing or whatever)?
   All I can find are product sheets saying that it has 11b/g/n, but
doesn't help me to find a driver. I
   Is there some meta-module that loads all the native wifi drivers that
I can use that I can test?
 - If I need to use NDIS emulation, does anyone think it will work for
this model/card? Windows drivers can be found here
http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/product-and-parts/default.page).
   The handbook (
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/config-network-setup.html#CONFIG-NETWORK-NDIS)
says I need Win XP drivers, is that old text or do I need that? I can't
find XP drivers on the lenovo page...
 - If NDIS should be possible, how do I extract the .sys and .inf file
from the exe that I downloaded from the URL above (I don't have any Windows
machine right now).

 TIA,
   Chris

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hi, you can usually find replacement wifi cards for your model on ebay,
this can give you an idea of the chipset.

also, you could always pull off the panel and look at the card.

ndis can be tricky because it needs an older 32 bit driver, and you need
to run a 32 bit version of FreeBSD.

a good solution is to find a ralink or atheros card on ebay and swap it
out, usually will cost less than 10 bucks USD.

Waitman Gobble
San Jose California USA
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Re: Wifi for Lenovo Laptop

2012-08-29 Thread jb
Chris devnullaccount at yahoo.se writes:

 ...

 I recently got a Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E530 (3259-9VG) laptop and would like
 to get the Wifi card running
 (fresh FreeBSD 9.0 install)
 ...

http://support.lenovo.com/en_GB/product-and-parts/detail.page?DocID=PD024684
Communications
Network

ThinkPad 1x1 11b/g/n PCIe Half Mini Card
ThinkPad 11b/g/n PCIe Half Mini Card
1x1 Wi-Fi + Bluetooth combo adapter
Intel Centrino® Wireless-N 2230
2x2 Wi-Fi + Bluetooth combo adapter
Bluetooth 4.0 wireless

There is a product ref file:
http://www.lenovo.com/psref/
http://www.lenovo.com/psref/pdf/edgebook.pdf
search for E530 3259.

These entries will be probably useless, but here they are:
$ dmesg -a | less
$ dmesg | grep -i wireless 

Example:
$ pciconf -lv |grep -i wireless
...
wpi0@pci0:3:0:0:class=0x028000 card=0x10118086 chip=0x42278086 rev=0x02
hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
device = 'PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection'
class  = network
...

Note: that wpi in top line is a driver name.

$ lshal |grep -i wireless

I searched Google but no luck.

Get a recent Live CD or DVD from any Linux distro (Knoppix, Fedora, etc).

jb


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Re: Wifi for Lenovo Laptop

2012-08-29 Thread Daniel Staal

On 2012-08-29 11:42, Chris wrote:

Hi,


I've tried to search the lists but can't find anything, but please
point me to an existing resource if available.

I recently got a Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E530 (3259-9VG) laptop and
would like to get the Wifi card running (fresh FreeBSD 9.0 install),
but I'm failling as it has been at least 5 years since I used with
wifi under FreeBSD. The card is not automatically detected (interface
not listed in ifconfig) so I'm assuming I have to either load a 
kernel

module or go the NDIS path. It seems like on Windows, the same driver
is used for E430, E435, E530 and E535, so in case anyone is using one
of these models, please let me know if have things running.

So some questions that might point me in the right direction:

- How can I find out which type of card this laptop actually has (can
I read it out of dmesg, some PCI listing or whatever)?
  All I can find are product sheets saying that it has 11b/g/n, but
doesn't help me to find a driver. I
  Is there some meta-module that loads all the native wifi drivers
that I can use that I can test?


There's a couple of different Wifi options for that machine, so which 
one you have may make a difference.  There looks to be some information 
on identifying which card you have here:

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Wireless_Network_Adapters
(Though they don't have your model listed yet, I think it's a new 
model...)


I'm guessing you probably have a 'Thinkpad' card, which recently has 
been Realtek, but you'd have to check that.  Note that replacing it with 
a generic mini-PCI wireless card may not work: Lenovo has been known to 
have their BIOS only recognize 'official' replacement parts.


Daniel T. Staal

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Re: Need recomendation on Laptop compatible with FreeBSD / PCBSD ?

2010-04-20 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 11:25:38AM +, Rom Albuquerque wrote:
 
 
  Hi folks. Can anyone recommend a laptop compatible with FreeBSD that
  doesn't require too much gymnastic to install the base system, KDE and
  OpenOffice.. ?

My advice would be to take a FreeBSD liveCD to a store and ask if you can try
to boot the laptop you want from the CD. That's virtually the only way to know
for sure that things will work.

If they don't cooperate, take your business elsewhere. In my experience, a
smaller local computer shop will probably be more interested in helping you 
than a
large retailer.

Roland
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Re: HP DV4-2153 laptop

2010-02-18 Thread Outback Dingo
Possible being an N chip its the newer ath9k which i had a similiar problem
under linux, but finally after getting the ath9k module loaded i could see a
card was there, then a simple ifconfig wlan0 up and iwconfig wlan0 power
auto under linux got it live. so id suspect something comparable to
FreeBSD would work, provided theres a drive which i believe there is might
also work for you

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Neil Short nesh...@yahoo.com wrote:

 problem: 7.2-Release doesn't detect either network device.

 Just picked up a HP DV4-2153 laptop from Costco. I don't know how new it
 is; but it may be fairly new. In the store I was able to determine the
 wireless device to be Atheros. I don't know what the wired device is. I
 never booted WinD'OH!s on the machine. I just loaded it up with FreeBSD
 7.2-R.

 Anyway:
 1) Has anybody had success with this particular laptop?
 2) Are there any tricks for determining the network devices? I tried
 kldload-ing every network device and had no luck.

 ==

  What did you do? the man holding the flashlight asked.

  I put down a spider, he said, wondering why the man didn't see; in the
 beam of yellow light the spider bloated up larger than life. So it could
 get away.




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Re: using leds on laptop

2010-02-02 Thread Paul B Mahol
On 2/1/10, Eitan Adler eitanadlerl...@gmail.com wrote:
 It is a Broadcom card and I need ndis to use it. I do not know if the light
 is attached to the wireless card though (it appears next to the power and
 charging lights)
 ndis0: Broadcom 802.11g Network Adapter mem 0xf470-0xf4703fff irq 18
 at device 0.0 on pci4
 bge0: Broadcom BCM5906 A2, ASIC rev. 0xc002 mem 0xf460-0xf460 irq
 17 at device 0.0 on pci7


I have working led (at least it works for me) with NDISulator code
from: http://www.gitorious.org/ndisulator
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Re: using leds on laptop

2010-02-01 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 1 Feb 2010 20:22:22 +0200, Eitan Adler eitanadlerl...@gmail.com wrote:
 My laptop has a led for wireless - It has never been used since I
 installed freeBSD on this laptop. I was wondering if there was a way I could
 figure out a) if freeBSD detects it b) a way to use it for something

I'm not sure if FreeBSD will detect the pure LED, but as
you mentioned that it is labelled wireless, it is in
relation to the WLAN inside the laptop. Maybe there's a
device driver functionality that activates the LED when
the WLAN device is active?

But like with most modern inventions (such as jacks for
phones and speakers that are controlled by a driver, or
other nonsense), this issue will be so specific that
there's only a very specific driver for an arbitrary
version of Windows that utilizes hidden code inside
the laptop's secret circuits to switch the LED on. :-)

Do you use the laptop's WLAN, and does the LED correspond
to any state (like activated, connected, scanning etc.) of
the WLAN?

Anyway, I would predict that you won't find an easy way
to utilize this LED except you're writing a driver for it
with specifications the laptop's manufacturer will sell to
you if you put enough money onto the table. :-)

Otherwise, it's completely useless.

By the way, I have an older Toshiba laptop with a mechanical
switch for the WLAN component. It activates a LED regardless
of any OS-internal setting, maybe it's just switching the
WLAN component's power off an on, along with the LED. But
that's not modern - today's devices need a driver for that. :-)

As I said: Useless stuff.


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Re: using leds on laptop

2010-02-01 Thread Eitan Adler
I'm not sure if FreeBSD will detect the pure LED, but as

 you mentioned that it is labelled wireless, it is in
 relation to the WLAN inside the laptop. Maybe there's a
 device driver functionality that activates the LED when
 the WLAN device is active?


Might be - but I don't have windows so I have no way of testing


 Do you use the laptop's WLAN, and does the LED correspond
 to any state (like activated, connected, scanning etc.) of
 the WLAN?

I do use WLAN but it does not correspond to any specific state. Nor does the
physical switch change anything


 Anyway, I would predict that you won't find an easy way
 to utilize this LED except you're writing a driver for it
 with specifications the laptop's manufacturer will sell to
 you if you put enough money onto the table. :-)

 It happens to be a Lenovo laptop. If I could get a copy of the
specification it would make a nice project for me - writing a driver -
*wonders*


 Otherwise, it's completely useless.
 --
 Polytropon
 Magdeburg, Germany
 Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
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Re: using leds on laptop

2010-02-01 Thread Brandon Gooch
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Eitan Adler eitanadlerl...@gmail.com wrote:
 I'm not sure if FreeBSD will detect the pure LED, but as

 you mentioned that it is labelled wireless, it is in
 relation to the WLAN inside the laptop. Maybe there's a
 device driver functionality that activates the LED when
 the WLAN device is active?


 Might be - but I don't have windows so I have no way of testing


 Do you use the laptop's WLAN, and does the LED correspond
 to any state (like activated, connected, scanning etc.) of
 the WLAN?

 I do use WLAN but it does not correspond to any specific state. Nor does the
 physical switch change anything


 Anyway, I would predict that you won't find an easy way
 to utilize this LED except you're writing a driver for it
 with specifications the laptop's manufacturer will sell to
 you if you put enough money onto the table. :-)

  It happens to be a Lenovo laptop. If I could get a copy of the
 specification it would make a nice project for me - writing a driver -
 *wonders*


 Otherwise, it's completely useless.
 --
 Polytropon
 Magdeburg, Germany
 Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
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If it's and Intel card (iwi(4), ipw(4), iwn(4)), it's a matter of
knowing what command to send to the firmware.

What device do you have in the laptop?

Check the dmesg(8) output...

-Brandon
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Re: using leds on laptop

2010-02-01 Thread Eitan Adler
It is a Broadcom card and I need ndis to use it. I do not know if the light
is attached to the wireless card though (it appears next to the power and
charging lights)
ndis0: Broadcom 802.11g Network Adapter mem 0xf470-0xf4703fff irq 18
at device 0.0 on pci4
bge0: Broadcom BCM5906 A2, ASIC rev. 0xc002 mem 0xf460-0xf460 irq
17 at device 0.0 on pci7


On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 11:35 PM, Brandon Gooch
jamesbrandongo...@gmail.comwrote:

 On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Eitan Adler eitanadlerl...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  I'm not sure if FreeBSD will detect the pure LED, but as
 
  you mentioned that it is labelled wireless, it is in
  relation to the WLAN inside the laptop. Maybe there's a
  device driver functionality that activates the LED when
  the WLAN device is active?
 
 
  Might be - but I don't have windows so I have no way of testing
 
 
  Do you use the laptop's WLAN, and does the LED correspond
  to any state (like activated, connected, scanning etc.) of
  the WLAN?
 
  I do use WLAN but it does not correspond to any specific state. Nor does
 the
  physical switch change anything
 
 
  Anyway, I would predict that you won't find an easy way
  to utilize this LED except you're writing a driver for it
  with specifications the laptop's manufacturer will sell to
  you if you put enough money onto the table. :-)
 
   It happens to be a Lenovo laptop. If I could get a copy of the
  specification it would make a nice project for me - writing a driver -
  *wonders*
 
 
  Otherwise, it's completely useless.
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 If it's and Intel card (iwi(4), ipw(4), iwn(4)), it's a matter of
 knowing what command to send to the firmware.

 What device do you have in the laptop?

 Check the dmesg(8) output...

 -Brandon

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Re: using leds on laptop

2010-02-01 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 10:24:41PM +0200, Eitan Adler wrote:
 
  It happens to be a Lenovo laptop. If I could get a copy of the
 specification it would make a nice project for me - writing a driver -
 *wonders*

Which Lenovo laptop model is it?

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Re: I want a laptop to connect to Internet via satelitte

2009-06-04 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 12:22:22PM -0400, Steven Friedrich wrote:
 I have a laptop and I was looking at the ATT LaptopConnect cards.  They 
 appear to only work with Windows.  I do need windows support, but I 
 insist on FreeBSD support.

According to
http://www.wireless.att.com/businesscenter/solutions/wireless-laptop/laptop-connect.jsp
LaptopConnect cards work via GSM/EDGE networks, not via satellite. They
also require something called ATT Communication Manager which is
windows-only, AFAICT.

In short, don't bother with these cards.


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Re: I want a laptop to connect to Internet via satelitte

2009-06-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar


I have a laptop and I was looking at the ATT LaptopConnect cards.  They 
appear to only work with Windows.  I do need windows support, but I insist on 
FreeBSD support.


I tried looking at the hardware and release notes for FreeBSD, but what do 
you call these devices to distinguish them from wireless ethernet?

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don't even know if it work under anything else. You have to check

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Re: Acer Aspire 4730Z laptop

2009-04-24 Thread Maciej Milewski
Friday 24 April 2009 09:26:40 John Beukema napisał(a):
 The procedure to install xorg suggested in Sec 5 of the Handbook does not
 work for my Acer Aspire 4730Z laptop running 7.0 amd64 GENERIC. I get no
 screen available with the vesa driver and a very low resolution X with the
 vga driver.  Any suggestions for a xorg.conf file that will work.  It uses

I don't know what you mean saying
 the Intel 4 express chip.
But if it is Intel graphics then try installing xf86-video-intel driver from 
ports. If it will not help post more info what is your video card in this 
laptop.

Regards,
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Re: geli on exisitng laptop

2009-04-08 Thread Geoff Fritz
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 07:06:27AM -0700, new_guy wrote:
 
 Hi guys,
 
 I'd like to use geli to whole disk encrypt a FreeBSD 7.1 laptop I already
 have setup. The laptop is up and working fine and I don't want to screw it
 up. It have the default partition layout. I've already used geli to encrypt
 the swap partition. 
 
 The default partitioning at install creates / /tmp /usr and /var. I thought
 I would start with /tmp as I should be able to fix that if I mess up. 
 
 Some questions...
 
 1. Will each partition have to be mounted with a password?

If you plan on converting existing partitions to geli-backed, then each
one will require its own initialization.  It's up to you on whether or not
you wish to use the same password/keyfile -- or different ones -- for each.

I personally experiment with geli all the time, and for convenience, I have
my primary drive prompt for a passord at boot time.  Under my encrypted drive,
I use key files without password to mount other devices.

From my rc.conf file:
geli_devices=ad3
geli_ad3_flags=-p -k /etc/geli/ad3.key
geli_ad3_autodetach=NO

(then the appropriate entry for ad3.eli in my fstab)

This would probably be unnacceptable to those who wear tin-foil hats and
think the NSA is out to get them, but it sure beats typing in a high-entropy
password for each and every device/partition in your system.

One potential gotchya: If you your primary device gets hosed (hardware failure,
lost password, corruption), then you won't be able to access the other devices
since you can't get access to your keys.  I *strongly* suggest that you back
up your key file(s) -- I keep 2, one on the USB stick that I use to boot my
machine, and one on a webmail account (both gpg-encrypted, of course).

Don't forget to encrypt swap (described in the handbook, I think).

 2. What's the most straight-forward way to go about this without screwing
 up?

For someone new to this, it would be far easier to start from scratch.
However, in your case, I suggest that you free up a partition to start with
(/tmp comes to mind here).  Experiment with a few geli init incantations
in order to get it to prompt for a password at boot time, and then mount the
device.  Mount it under something like /root2 or /newroot.  Then, copy your
entire content of / over to the new mountpoint (use tar or rsync, and don't
forget to exclude other devices).

Once you have that mounting at boot and synced up, you can change the /
entry in your current /etc/fstab (make sure the new fstab is correct for
the new mounts, too).

You system will start booting, and you'll be prompted for a password to
unlock the new encrypted device.  Then, it'll mount / (the new encrytped
device), and once that happens, the old / will be essentially ignored
since the new one will be mounted over it, so the new fstab and directory
structure will assume control.

Once that is working, you can migrate other partitions over, one at a time,
until all required devices are encrypted.  If you don't want to be prompted
for passwords for these other devices, you should use keys instead of
passwords and use the rc.conf method I mentioned above.

Personally, I'd add a 2nd drive, encrypt it wholesale (ad0.eli), then
partition that device in whatever way you wish (/dev/ad0.elia,
/dev/ad0.elib, etc. by way of bsdlabel -w ad0.eli ; bsdlabel -e ad0.eli).
Then mount those partitions under a /newroot tree, then rsync your entire
filesystem tree over to that, then switch your fstab to point to the new root.
(again, don't forget to correctly edit the *new* fstab after you sync, or
you'l be hating life as you try to fix the mess from the boot loader prompt
or a recovery disk).

Moving everything back to your newly-encrypted old drive will be more
difficult.

I cut my geli teeth on the following docs:
http://nullpointer.dk/2007/06/05/encrypting-a-freebsd-system-using-geli/
http://events.ccc.de/congress/2005/fahrplan/attachments/586-paper_Complete_Hard_Disk_Encryption.pdf

There appear to be quite a few more decent tutorials online these days.
Just google freebsd geli encryption.

The good news is that many of the methods used for crypto (loading modules from
/boot/loader.conf) can be applied to things having gjournal or ZFS running
on your root device.  In fact, I've run ZFS over geli, and I currently use
gjournal over geli.  Both work very well.

Good luck.

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Re: geli on exisitng laptop

2009-04-08 Thread Matthew Seaman

new_guy wrote:

Hi guys,

I'd like to use geli to whole disk encrypt a FreeBSD 7.1 laptop I already
have setup. The laptop is up and working fine and I don't want to screw it
up. It have the default partition layout. I've already used geli to encrypt
the swap partition. 


The default partitioning at install creates / /tmp /usr and /var. I thought
I would start with /tmp as I should be able to fix that if I mess up. 


Some questions...

1. Will each partition have to be mounted with a password?
2. What's the most straight-forward way to go about this without screwing
up?

I already have the eli module loaded in the /boot/loader.conf so I won't
need to re-compile, etc.



To convert a partition to geli requires you to wipe out all the contents,
scribble over the partition with random data to get rid of any remnants of
the unencrypted content, set up the encryption keys and then rebuild the file
system and recover the data from backup.

Yes, you will need to supply some sort of secret value to retrieve the 
encrypted disk contents.  This is usually configured to mean typing in a

passphrase at the time the partition is mounted, although it is also possible
to store crypto keys on a removable medium such as  USB key -- you don't 
necessarily have to use a pass phrase in that case, although it's a good idea

for the most effective security.  Once the partition is mounted, you should be
able to take the key out and put it in a safe place and still keep running.

Depending on your requirements you can encrypt the whole drive -- which while
highly secure requires you to have crypto keys etc. on a removable medium and
is a little tricky to get working properly -- or you can create a small
unencrypted partition which should contain the kernel and necessary crypto bits
(ie. the contents of /boot at a minimum) and then encrypt things partition by 
partition.  You will have to type in a pass phrase to mount each different
encrypted partition -- to prevent this becoming too onerous, consider using a
'one big partition' layout.

Also note that you should encrypt the swap partition, or someone coming into
possession of the laptop may be trivially able to recover secret data from it:
this is pretty automated and can be achieved by simply editing /etc/fstab to
change the mount device to eg. /dev/ad0s1b.eli and rebooting -- an ephemeral
key is used, so no typing passphrases is required in this instance.  Setting up
a swap-backed tmpmfs will then then give you an encrypted /tmp too.

Cheers,

Matthew

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Re: geli on exisitng laptop

2009-04-08 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 07:06:27AM -0700, new_guy wrote:
 
 Hi guys,
 
 I'd like to use geli to whole disk encrypt a FreeBSD 7.1 laptop I already
 have setup. The laptop is up and working fine and I don't want to screw it
 up. It have the default partition layout. I've already used geli to encrypt
 the swap partition. 
 
 The default partitioning at install creates / /tmp /usr and /var. I thought
 I would start with /tmp as I should be able to fix that if I mess up. 
 
 Some questions...
 
 1. Will each partition have to be mounted with a password?

You can use a password, a file containing a key or both. See
geli(8). The security of an encrypted partition relying solely on a key
from another partition is qeustionable at least.

 2. What's the most straight-forward way to go about this without screwing
 up?

You cannot encrypt the whole disk. You'll need an unencrypted /boot
partition to read the kernel from, and unencrypted boot sector.

Furthermore, you cannot encrypt a partition in place. You'll have to
move the data somewhere else, unmount the partition, encrypt it, newfs
it, attach and mount the encrypted partition and restore the data

Personally, I think there is little value or security in encrypting /
and /usr. There is really nothing secret there. One could even argue
that the well-known content of / might /usr might facilitate known
plaintext attacks! The only possible reason is to inconvenience a thief,
but one might argue that putting anything but windows on it accomplishes
that quite nicely. :-)

And if your laptop is not a powerhouse, using encryption is going to eat
CPU cycles.

My advice would be to put /home (where _your_ data resides) on a
seperate partition and encrypt only that partition, with a password.

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Re: geli on exisitng laptop

2009-04-08 Thread new_guy


Roland Smith wrote:
 
 My advice would be to put /home (where _your_ data resides) on a
 seperate partition and encrypt only that partition, with a password.
 

Thanks to everyone for the advice. I really do appreciate it. I like this
tip a lot. Since the default FreeBSD installer puts /home as a link to
/usr/home... could I just encrypt /usr and get the same result? I'm thinking
this would be the best way.

Thanks again for the Great tips!

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Re: geli on exisitng laptop

2009-04-08 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 10:48:31AM -0700, new_guy wrote:
 
 
 Roland Smith wrote:
  
  My advice would be to put /home (where _your_ data resides) on a
  seperate partition and encrypt only that partition, with a password.
 
 Thanks to everyone for the advice. I really do appreciate it. I like this
 tip a lot. Since the default FreeBSD installer puts /home as a link to
 /usr/home... could I just encrypt /usr and get the same result? I'm thinking
 this would be the best way.

You could do that. But since enabling encryption effectively destroys
the data on the old partition, you might as well split the old /usr into
/usr and /home while you're at it. On my workstation /usr fills about
5GB. So reserving 5-8GB for /usr should be plenty. An encrypted /usr
can be a PITA if you have to boot into single user mode for
maintenance. You'd have to attach and mount the geli device by hand,
instead of having the rc scripts automate it.

A word of warning: make sure you have good recent backups before
enabling encryption, in case it becomes FUBAR.

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Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-20 Thread Gary Dunn
On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 11:17 +0100, Paul B. Mahol wrote:
 On 3/18/09, Gary Dunn knowt...@aloha.com wrote:
  On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 18:53 +0100, Paul B. Mahol wrote:
  On 3/13/09, Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org wrote:
   On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Maciej Suszko wrote:
  
   Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org wrote:
Hi all:
   
i've looked at tuxmobil, bsdgroup.de etc and i don't want to use
ndiswrapper, or broadcom or additional PCMCIA card at all.
   
Is there a laptop model (available in market) that experienced
members would like to recommend wherein
 . the WiFi 802.11 a/g (PCI based)
 . Ethernet port
 . and ACPI
work absolutely fine with FreeBSD 7.x ?
  
   I use RELENG_7_1 and RELENG_7 on HP Compaq nx7300. I haven't tried the
   suspend/resume, firewire port and I suppose the modem is not
   going to work. Everything else is working fine for me.
   --
   regards, Maciej Suszko.
  
  
   What is the wireless chipset of your machine ?
 
  On mine nx7300 it is broadcom one and works fine via ndis.
  Suspend/resume works fine if second core is disabled and vesa is
  loaded in kernel
  (either via kldload or via custom kernel)
  Firewire and bluetooth are supported and should work without problems.
  Ethernet works via if_bfe; carbus, drm, sound works fine ...
  In short everything is supported on UP kernel except winmodem.
 
  There are some bugs in BIOS asl which I fixed adding:
 
  acpi_dsdt_load=YES
  acpi_dsdt_name=/boot/acpi.aml
 
  in /boot/loader.conf
 
  /boot/acpi.aml is modified version of ASL which address temperature
  is absurd, ignored
  type of messages.
 
 
  8.0 CURRENT i386.
 
 
  Lots of interesting stuff in this thread. I am running 7.1 and Gnome
  2.22 on a Fujitsu T1010. (More at http://wiki.openslate.net) My
  experience seems typical, most things work. Issues:
 
  o Suspend/Resume does not work
 
  o With powerd configured CPU speed happily throttles up and down
  automatically, greatly extending battery life
 
  o X mouse pointer is usually a square of random noise pixels --
  looks weird but works fine
 
 Enable soft cursor in /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
 Option SWcursor  1
 inside Device Section.
 
 You didn't said what video driver.

Thank you for your suggestions.

I tried setting SWcursor to 1 and True but neither was a solution.
The behavior changed from a neat square of rippling bits about the same
size as a desktop icon that moved with the mouse, to a fully formed,
proper mouse pointer AND a steady stream of random bits spewed across
the screen. The more I moved the mouse the more bits appeared,
threatening to obliterate the entire desktop!  Almost a new kind of
desktop accessory .. cloud computing!

Below is my complete /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf. The wacom stuff is
for my unrecognized touch screen. The video problem was present from day
one, before I installed the linux-wacom driver.

After that I have included a big chunk from /var/log/Xorg.0.log. I tried
to limit it to just the Intel video chip stuff. Complete and contiguous
within this portion of the log file. I do not have enough experience
with X to recognize a problem.

Section ServerLayout
Identifier X.org Configured
Screen  0  Screen0 0 0
InputDeviceMouse0 CorePointer
InputDeviceKeyboard0 CoreKeyboard
InputDevice stylusSendCoreEvents
InputDevice eraserSendCoreEvents
InputDevice cursorSendCoreEvents
InputDevice pad   SendCoreEvents
InputDevice touch SendCoreEvents
EndSection

Section Files
RgbPath  /usr/local/share/X11/rgb
ModulePath   /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules
FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/
FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/
FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/OTF
FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/
FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/
FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/
EndSection

Section Module
Load  extmod
Load  record
Load  dbe
Load  glx
Load  GLcore
Load  xtrap
Load  dri
Load  freetype
Load  type1
EndSection

Section InputDevice
Identifier  Keyboard0
Driver  kbd
EndSection

Section InputDevice
Identifier  Mouse0
Driver  mouse
Option  Protocol auto
Option  Device /dev/sysmouse
Option  ZAxisMapping 4 5 6 7
EndSection

Section Monitor
Identifier   Monitor0
VendorName   Monitor Vendor
ModelNameMonitor Model
EndSection

Section Device
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: i: integer, f: float, bool: True/False,
### string: String, freq: f Hz/kHz/MHz
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option NoAccel   # [bool]
#Option SWcursor  # [bool]
#Option ColorKey 

Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-19 Thread Maciej Suszko
Chris Rees utis...@googlemail.com wrote:
 As far as the WLAN support goes, you can always replace the cards.
 Searching on eBay or old laptops is often a good bet. Ralink and
 Atheros are your best bets as aforementioned; Free drivers!

If you mean replacing mPCI cards - it's not always possible. HP has got
device whitelists implemented in their BIOS - you can replace WiFi cards
to those they're selling with their laptops. I visited some sites
describing BIOS modifications - yes, it's possible, but you there's
always big chance to got your computer bricked :|
As far as I know - some IBM models have such whitelists as well...

 Oh, I'll agree with everyone saying IBM laptops are the best; but they
 sold the Thinkpad line to Lenovo, who as I've mostly found have kept
 up the standards. They are excellent buys.
 
 Good luck...
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Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-18 Thread Gary Dunn
On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 18:53 +0100, Paul B. Mahol wrote:
 On 3/13/09, Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org wrote:
  On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Maciej Suszko wrote:
 
  Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org wrote:
   Hi all:
  
   i've looked at tuxmobil, bsdgroup.de etc and i don't want to use
   ndiswrapper, or broadcom or additional PCMCIA card at all.
  
   Is there a laptop model (available in market) that experienced
   members would like to recommend wherein
. the WiFi 802.11 a/g (PCI based)
. Ethernet port
. and ACPI
   work absolutely fine with FreeBSD 7.x ?
 
  I use RELENG_7_1 and RELENG_7 on HP Compaq nx7300. I haven't tried the
  suspend/resume, firewire port and I suppose the modem is not
  going to work. Everything else is working fine for me.
  --
  regards, Maciej Suszko.
 
 
  What is the wireless chipset of your machine ?
 
 On mine nx7300 it is broadcom one and works fine via ndis.
 Suspend/resume works fine if second core is disabled and vesa is
 loaded in kernel
 (either via kldload or via custom kernel)
 Firewire and bluetooth are supported and should work without problems.
 Ethernet works via if_bfe; carbus, drm, sound works fine ...
 In short everything is supported on UP kernel except winmodem.
 
 There are some bugs in BIOS asl which I fixed adding:
 
 acpi_dsdt_load=YES
 acpi_dsdt_name=/boot/acpi.aml
 
 in /boot/loader.conf
 
 /boot/acpi.aml is modified version of ASL which address temperature
 is absurd, ignored
 type of messages.
 
 
 8.0 CURRENT i386.
 

Lots of interesting stuff in this thread. I am running 7.1 and Gnome
2.22 on a Fujitsu T1010. (More at http://wiki.openslate.net) My
experience seems typical, most things work. Issues:

o Suspend/Resume does not work

o With powerd configured CPU speed happily throttles up and down
automatically, greatly extending battery life

o X mouse pointer is usually a square of random noise pixels --
looks weird but works fine

o Built-in WiFi does not work; I use an old Orinoco Gold PC-card, wi
driver works fine

o Some thumb drives mount fine, some do not, some mount but do not
unmount. They all work fine in Vista :-(

o Cannot mount a Sony PCM-D50 digital audio recorder, which works
fine in Vista :-(

o The Linux-Wacom driver (http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net/) does
not see the built-in digitizer

Apparently HEAD == 8.0 CURRENT; I may move up to that to see what is
better. However, running CURRENT is not for the faint of heart.

Questions:

1. Has the SMP issue with ACPI been fixed in HEAD?

2. How does one disable the second CPU?

3. ACPI includes commands that be configured to run going into and
coming out of suspend. Can these be used to turn the second CPU off and
on?

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Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-18 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 3/18/09, Gary Dunn knowt...@aloha.com wrote:
 On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 18:53 +0100, Paul B. Mahol wrote:
 On 3/13/09, Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org wrote:
  On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Maciej Suszko wrote:
 
  Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org wrote:
   Hi all:
  
   i've looked at tuxmobil, bsdgroup.de etc and i don't want to use
   ndiswrapper, or broadcom or additional PCMCIA card at all.
  
   Is there a laptop model (available in market) that experienced
   members would like to recommend wherein
. the WiFi 802.11 a/g (PCI based)
. Ethernet port
. and ACPI
   work absolutely fine with FreeBSD 7.x ?
 
  I use RELENG_7_1 and RELENG_7 on HP Compaq nx7300. I haven't tried the
  suspend/resume, firewire port and I suppose the modem is not
  going to work. Everything else is working fine for me.
  --
  regards, Maciej Suszko.
 
 
  What is the wireless chipset of your machine ?

 On mine nx7300 it is broadcom one and works fine via ndis.
 Suspend/resume works fine if second core is disabled and vesa is
 loaded in kernel
 (either via kldload or via custom kernel)
 Firewire and bluetooth are supported and should work without problems.
 Ethernet works via if_bfe; carbus, drm, sound works fine ...
 In short everything is supported on UP kernel except winmodem.

 There are some bugs in BIOS asl which I fixed adding:

 acpi_dsdt_load=YES
 acpi_dsdt_name=/boot/acpi.aml

 in /boot/loader.conf

 /boot/acpi.aml is modified version of ASL which address temperature
 is absurd, ignored
 type of messages.


 8.0 CURRENT i386.


 Lots of interesting stuff in this thread. I am running 7.1 and Gnome
 2.22 on a Fujitsu T1010. (More at http://wiki.openslate.net) My
 experience seems typical, most things work. Issues:

 o Suspend/Resume does not work

 o With powerd configured CPU speed happily throttles up and down
 automatically, greatly extending battery life

 o X mouse pointer is usually a square of random noise pixels --
 looks weird but works fine

Enable soft cursor in /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
Option SWcursor  1
inside Device Section.

You didn't said what video driver.


 o Built-in WiFi does not work; I use an old Orinoco Gold PC-card, wi
 driver works fine

it may work with ndisulator(ndisgen(8))


 o Some thumb drives mount fine, some do not, some mount but do not
 unmount. They all work fine in Vista :-(

 o Cannot mount a Sony PCM-D50 digital audio recorder, which works
 fine in Vista :-(

 o The Linux-Wacom driver (http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net/) does
 not see the built-in digitizer

 Apparently HEAD == 8.0 CURRENT; I may move up to that to see what is
 better. However, running CURRENT is not for the faint of heart.

 Questions:

 1. Has the SMP issue with ACPI been fixed in HEAD?

Not for me, but UP still works.

 2. How does one disable the second CPU?

set kern.smp.disabled=1 from loader prompt or kern.smp.disabled=1 line
in /boot/loader.conf


 3. ACPI includes commands that be configured to run going into and
 coming out of suspend. Can these be used to turn the second CPU off and
 on?

 --
 Gary Dunn, Honolulu
 o...@aloha.com
 http://openslate.net/
 http://e9erust.blogspot.com/
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Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-18 Thread Chris Rees
2009/3/18 Paul B. Mahol one...@gmail.com:
 On 3/18/09, Gary Dunn knowt...@aloha.com wrote:
 On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 18:53 +0100, Paul B. Mahol wrote:
 On 3/13/09, Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org wrote:
  On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Maciej Suszko wrote:
 
  Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org wrote:
   Hi all:
  
   i've looked at tuxmobil, bsdgroup.de etc and i don't want to use
   ndiswrapper, or broadcom or additional PCMCIA card at all.
  
   Is there a laptop model (available in market) that experienced
   members would like to recommend wherein
    . the WiFi 802.11 a/g (PCI based)
    . Ethernet port
    . and ACPI
   work absolutely fine with FreeBSD 7.x ?
 
  I use RELENG_7_1 and RELENG_7 on HP Compaq nx7300. I haven't tried the
  suspend/resume, firewire port and I suppose the modem is not
  going to work. Everything else is working fine for me.
  --
  regards, Maciej Suszko.
 
 
  What is the wireless chipset of your machine ?

 On mine nx7300 it is broadcom one and works fine via ndis.
 Suspend/resume works fine if second core is disabled and vesa is
 loaded in kernel
 (either via kldload or via custom kernel)
 Firewire and bluetooth are supported and should work without problems.
 Ethernet works via if_bfe; carbus, drm, sound works fine ...
 In short everything is supported on UP kernel except winmodem.

 There are some bugs in BIOS asl which I fixed adding:

 acpi_dsdt_load=YES
 acpi_dsdt_name=/boot/acpi.aml

 in /boot/loader.conf

 /boot/acpi.aml is modified version of ASL which address temperature
 is absurd, ignored
 type of messages.


 8.0 CURRENT i386.


 Lots of interesting stuff in this thread. I am running 7.1 and Gnome
 2.22 on a Fujitsu T1010. (More at http://wiki.openslate.net) My
 experience seems typical, most things work. Issues:

     o Suspend/Resume does not work

     o With powerd configured CPU speed happily throttles up and down
 automatically, greatly extending battery life

     o X mouse pointer is usually a square of random noise pixels --
 looks weird but works fine

 Enable soft cursor in /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
 Option SWcursor      1
 inside Device Section.

 You didn't said what video driver.


     o Built-in WiFi does not work; I use an old Orinoco Gold PC-card, wi
 driver works fine

 it may work with ndisulator(ndisgen(8))


     o Some thumb drives mount fine, some do not, some mount but do not
 unmount. They all work fine in Vista :-(

     o Cannot mount a Sony PCM-D50 digital audio recorder, which works
 fine in Vista :-(

     o The Linux-Wacom driver (http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net/) does
 not see the built-in digitizer

 Apparently HEAD == 8.0 CURRENT; I may move up to that to see what is
 better. However, running CURRENT is not for the faint of heart.

 Questions:

 1. Has the SMP issue with ACPI been fixed in HEAD?

 Not for me, but UP still works.

 2. How does one disable the second CPU?

 set kern.smp.disabled=1 from loader prompt or kern.smp.disabled=1 line
 in /boot/loader.conf


 3. ACPI includes commands that be configured to run going into and
 coming out of suspend. Can these be used to turn the second CPU off and
 on?

 --
 Gary Dunn, Honolulu
 o...@aloha.com
 http://openslate.net/
 http://e9erust.blogspot.com/
 Sent from Slate001




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As far as the WLAN support goes, you can always replace the cards.
Searching on eBay or old laptops is often a good bet. Ralink and
Atheros are your best bets as aforementioned; Free drivers!

Oh, I'll agree with everyone saying IBM laptops are the best; but they
sold the Thinkpad line to Lenovo, who as I've mostly found have kept
up the standards. They are excellent buys.

Good luck...

Chris
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Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-18 Thread Wojciech Puchar

Oh, I'll agree with everyone saying IBM laptops are the best; but they
sold the Thinkpad line to Lenovo, who as I've mostly found have kept
up the standards. They are excellent buys.

not sure how about new ones but my Thinkpad T23 works excellent and 
everything is supported, even winmodem with ltmdm driver from ports.


and it's quite stable :) i didn't move with it some time and

13:42  up 50 days, 16:45, 7 users, load averages: 0,01 0,00 0,00

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Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-18 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 01:42:17PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
 Oh, I'll agree with everyone saying IBM laptops are the best; but they
 sold the Thinkpad line to Lenovo, who as I've mostly found have kept
 up the standards. They are excellent buys.
 
 not sure how about new ones but my Thinkpad T23 works excellent and 
 everything is supported, even winmodem with ltmdm driver from ports.
 
 and it's quite stable :) i didn't move with it some time and
 
 13:42  up 50 days, 16:45, 7 users, load averages: 0,01 0,00 0,00

I've had similar experience with my Thinkpad R52 -- except that, since it
sleeps and wakes reliably when I remember to do stuff in the right order,
my uptime isn't limited by staying in one place.  The uptime isn't very
impressive right now, though, since I shut it down during a three day
drive across the country a few days ago.

-- 
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Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-13 Thread Maciej Suszko
Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote:
 
  This machine uses wpi and bge. Both devices seem to work ok
  chucking files around a domestic network.
 
 at least for wired network i never had a problem with broadcom chips

Neither do I...

 
  w...@pci0:8:0:0:class=0x028000 card=0x135c103c
  chip=0x42228086 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
 vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
 device = '10418086 Intel 3945ABG Wireless LAN controller'
 class  = network
  b...@pci0:2:14:0:   class=0x02 card=0x30aa103c
  chip=0x169c14e4 rev=0x03 hdr=0x00
 vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation'
 device = 'BCM5788 Broadcom NetLink (TM) Gigabit Ethernet'
 class  = network
 
  Chris
-- 
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Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-12 Thread John Hendy
For Atheros, the exact chipset is still important... my Macbook's Atheros
AR5008 (aka AR5418) does not work with the FBSD ath driver. i386 works if I
ndisgen a kernel module from a WinXP driver, but I have not been able to
ndisgen a module successfully for amd64, which is what I'd like to run. The
kernel panics every time I load it.
I'm using FBSD-7.1-amd64, so I can't speak of the capabilities of 8.0, but
the hardware notes do not seem to have changed re the ath driver (
http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/CURRENT/hardware/support.html#WLAN)... Even
though it only states that AR5005VL chips are unsupported, mine still is not
picked up and it's definitely an AR5008.


- John

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Ashish SHUKLA wahjava...@gmail.com wrote:

 Saifi Khan writes:

 [...]

  Do Atheros, Ralink, Realtek, Intel PRO/Wireless chipset work
  with FreeBSD ?

 Atheros chipsets work great with FreeBSD 8-CURRENT at least. And the
 driver is FOSS and blob free. No ideas about other chipsets.

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Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-12 Thread Ashish SHUKLA
Saifi Khan writes:

[...]

 Do Atheros, Ralink, Realtek, Intel PRO/Wireless chipset work
 with FreeBSD ?

Atheros chipsets work great with FreeBSD 8-CURRENT at least. And the
driver is FOSS and blob free. No ideas about other chipsets.

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Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-12 Thread Saifi Khan
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Ashish SHUKLA wrote:

 Saifi Khan writes:
 
 [...]
 
  Do Atheros, Ralink, Realtek, Intel PRO/Wireless chipset work
  with FreeBSD ?
 
 Atheros chipsets work great with FreeBSD 8-CURRENT at least. And the
 driver is FOSS and blob free. No ideas about other chipsets.
 
 -- 
 Ashish SHUKLA
 

There are Atheros chipsets which don't work with FreeBSD !
An OSS (Open Source software) driver is certainly appreciated.

I've very good idea about the chipsets dumped in Indian markets,
hence the specificity of the question.


thanks
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Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-12 Thread Doug Poland

Chris Whitehouse wrote:

Saifi Khan wrote:

Hi all:

i've looked at tuxmobil, bsdgroup.de etc and i don't want to use
ndiswrapper, or broadcom or additional PCMCIA card at all.

Is there a laptop model (available in market) that experienced
members would like to recommend wherein  . the WiFi 802.11 a/g (PCI 
based)

 . Ethernet port  . and ACPI work absolutely fine with FreeBSD 7.x ?


Coming in kinda late on this thread but...  I recently came across a 
Toshiba Satellite L350 (L355D-S7825).  It works quite nicely with 
7.1-STABLE.


The only issues are...

   * needed to build ath wireless driver based on some stuff I googled
   * Doesn't recognize on-board bluetooth, modem, or SD card reader.
   * The touchpad surface is flush with palm rest and triggered too easily
   * Display only does 1440x900
   * 2 hour battery life.

Pros:
* 7.1-STABLE amd64 runs great!
* Radeon video works great
* ath wireless and rl0 work great
* 2.0GHz AMD dual with 3GB RAM
* Only $600 from BestBuy
* 17 display
* Does Ubuntu 8.10 (amd64) flawlessly, even 64-bit flash

This is no high-end HP or Lenovo, but for $600US, it's not a bad laptop 
for 64-bit FreeBSD.  Never tried ACPI features, I just assume 
suspend/resume will not work and power on/off.  YMMV


--
Regards,
Doug

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Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-12 Thread Sam Leffler
5418 has worked for several years in HEAD.   At this point the only ath 
chips not working in HEAD are those I haven't had access to (9280 and 
9285) and 9280 support should go in shortly.  About the only thing 
missing for ath is support for 11n (the 802.11 layer has supported 11n 
on other devices for several years and been used in various products).


I can't comment on RELENG_7 support as I don't run it.

   Sam

John Hendy wrote:

For Atheros, the exact chipset is still important... my Macbook's Atheros
AR5008 (aka AR5418) does not work with the FBSD ath driver. i386 works if I
ndisgen a kernel module from a WinXP driver, but I have not been able to
ndisgen a module successfully for amd64, which is what I'd like to run. The
kernel panics every time I load it.
I'm using FBSD-7.1-amd64, so I can't speak of the capabilities of 8.0, but
the hardware notes do not seem to have changed re the ath driver (
http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/CURRENT/hardware/support.html#WLAN)... Even
though it only states that AR5005VL chips are unsupported, mine still is not
picked up and it's definitely an AR5008.


- John

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Ashish SHUKLA wahjava...@gmail.com wrote:

  

Saifi Khan writes:

[...]



Do Atheros, Ralink, Realtek, Intel PRO/Wireless chipset work
with FreeBSD ?
  

Atheros chipsets work great with FreeBSD 8-CURRENT at least. And the
driver is FOSS and blob free. No ideas about other chipsets.

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Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-12 Thread John Hendy
I've never heard of HEAD... I'm pretty new to freebsd, so that could very
well be why! Google is just giving me search results with people doing such
and such with 'freebsd-head', not what it is.
-John

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Sam Leffler s...@freebsd.org wrote:

 5418 has worked for several years in HEAD.   At this point the only ath
 chips not working in HEAD are those I haven't had access to (9280 and 9285)
 and 9280 support should go in shortly.  About the only thing missing for ath
 is support for 11n (the 802.11 layer has supported 11n on other devices for
 several years and been used in various products).

 I can't comment on RELENG_7 support as I don't run it.

   Sam

 John Hendy wrote:

 For Atheros, the exact chipset is still important... my Macbook's Atheros
 AR5008 (aka AR5418) does not work with the FBSD ath driver. i386 works if
 I
 ndisgen a kernel module from a WinXP driver, but I have not been able to
 ndisgen a module successfully for amd64, which is what I'd like to run.
 The
 kernel panics every time I load it.
 I'm using FBSD-7.1-amd64, so I can't speak of the capabilities of 8.0, but
 the hardware notes do not seem to have changed re the ath driver (
 http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/CURRENT/hardware/support.html#WLAN)...
 Even
 though it only states that AR5005VL chips are unsupported, mine still is
 not
 picked up and it's definitely an AR5008.


 - John

 On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Ashish SHUKLA wahjava...@gmail.com
 wrote:



 Saifi Khan writes:

 [...]



 Do Atheros, Ralink, Realtek, Intel PRO/Wireless chipset work
 with FreeBSD ?


 Atheros chipsets work great with FreeBSD 8-CURRENT at least. And the
 driver is FOSS and blob free. No ideas about other chipsets.

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Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-12 Thread Saifi Khan
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Maciej Suszko wrote:

 Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org wrote:
  Hi all:
  
  i've looked at tuxmobil, bsdgroup.de etc and i don't want to use
  ndiswrapper, or broadcom or additional PCMCIA card at all.
  
  Is there a laptop model (available in market) that experienced
  members would like to recommend wherein 
   . the WiFi 802.11 a/g (PCI based)
   . Ethernet port 
   . and ACPI 
  work absolutely fine with FreeBSD 7.x ?
 
 I use RELENG_7_1 and RELENG_7 on HP Compaq nx7300. I haven't tried the
 suspend/resume, firewire port and I suppose the modem is not
 going to work. Everything else is working fine for me.
 -- 
 regards, Maciej Suszko.
 

What is the wireless chipset of your machine ?


thanks
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Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-12 Thread Maciej Suszko
Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org wrote:
 Hi all:
 
 i've looked at tuxmobil, bsdgroup.de etc and i don't want to use
 ndiswrapper, or broadcom or additional PCMCIA card at all.
 
 Is there a laptop model (available in market) that experienced
 members would like to recommend wherein 
  . the WiFi 802.11 a/g (PCI based)
  . Ethernet port 
  . and ACPI 
 work absolutely fine with FreeBSD 7.x ?

I use RELENG_7_1 and RELENG_7 on HP Compaq nx7300. I haven't tried the
suspend/resume, firewire port and I suppose the modem is not
going to work. Everything else is working fine for me.
-- 
regards, Maciej Suszko.
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Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-12 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 3/13/09, Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org wrote:
 On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Maciej Suszko wrote:

 Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org wrote:
  Hi all:
 
  i've looked at tuxmobil, bsdgroup.de etc and i don't want to use
  ndiswrapper, or broadcom or additional PCMCIA card at all.
 
  Is there a laptop model (available in market) that experienced
  members would like to recommend wherein
   . the WiFi 802.11 a/g (PCI based)
   . Ethernet port
   . and ACPI
  work absolutely fine with FreeBSD 7.x ?

 I use RELENG_7_1 and RELENG_7 on HP Compaq nx7300. I haven't tried the
 suspend/resume, firewire port and I suppose the modem is not
 going to work. Everything else is working fine for me.
 --
 regards, Maciej Suszko.


 What is the wireless chipset of your machine ?

On mine nx7300 it is broadcom one and works fine via ndis.
Suspend/resume works fine if second core is disabled and vesa is
loaded in kernel
(either via kldload or via custom kernel)
Firewire and bluetooth are supported and should work without problems.
Ethernet works via if_bfe; carbus, drm, sound works fine ...
In short everything is supported on UP kernel except winmodem.

There are some bugs in BIOS asl which I fixed adding:

acpi_dsdt_load=YES
acpi_dsdt_name=/boot/acpi.aml

in /boot/loader.conf

/boot/acpi.aml is modified version of ASL which address temperature
is absurd, ignored
type of messages.


8.0 CURRENT i386.

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Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-12 Thread Saifi Khan
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Paul B. Mahol wrote:

 On 3/13/09, Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org wrote:
  On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Maciej Suszko wrote:
 
  Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org wrote:
   Hi all:
  
   i've looked at tuxmobil, bsdgroup.de etc and i don't want to use
   ndiswrapper, or broadcom or additional PCMCIA card at all.
  
   Is there a laptop model (available in market) that experienced
   members would like to recommend wherein
. the WiFi 802.11 a/g (PCI based)
. Ethernet port
. and ACPI
   work absolutely fine with FreeBSD 7.x ?
 
  I use RELENG_7_1 and RELENG_7 on HP Compaq nx7300. I haven't tried the
  suspend/resume, firewire port and I suppose the modem is not
  going to work. Everything else is working fine for me.
  --
  regards, Maciej Suszko.
 
 
  What is the wireless chipset of your machine ?
 
 On mine nx7300 it is broadcom one and works fine via ndis.
 Suspend/resume works fine if second core is disabled and vesa is
 loaded in kernel
 (either via kldload or via custom kernel)
 Firewire and bluetooth are supported and should work without problems.
 Ethernet works via if_bfe; carbus, drm, sound works fine ...
 In short everything is supported on UP kernel except winmodem.
 
 There are some bugs in BIOS asl which I fixed adding:
 
 acpi_dsdt_load=YES
 acpi_dsdt_name=/boot/acpi.aml
 
 in /boot/loader.conf
 
 /boot/acpi.aml is modified version of ASL which address temperature
 is absurd, ignored
 type of messages.
 
 
 8.0 CURRENT i386.
 
 -- 
 Paul
 

Thanks Paul. i'd like to avoid Trash-com chipset at all costs.

When Maciej wrote HP nx, i thought here comes another laptop
baked with Trash-com chipset cookie. Indian market is filled
with these trash-com HP/Compaq laptops.

I really don't mind buying something 1-2 yr old, as long as i've
got all the stuff working fine.

Any suggestions on BenQ R58 ? It's about $ 560 here and atleast
one guy claims that it has Ralink chipset. Anybody knows ?


thanks
Saifi.
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Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-12 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 3/12/09, Maciej Suszko mac...@suszko.eu wrote:
 Paul B. Mahol one...@gmail.com wrote:
 On 3/13/09, Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org wrote:
  On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Maciej Suszko wrote:
 
  Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org wrote:
   Hi all:
  
   i've looked at tuxmobil, bsdgroup.de etc and i don't want to use
   ndiswrapper, or broadcom or additional PCMCIA card at all.
  
   Is there a laptop model (available in market) that experienced
   members would like to recommend wherein
. the WiFi 802.11 a/g (PCI based)
. Ethernet port
. and ACPI
   work absolutely fine with FreeBSD 7.x ?
 
  I use RELENG_7_1 and RELENG_7 on HP Compaq nx7300. I haven't tried
  the suspend/resume, firewire port and I suppose the modem is not
  going to work. Everything else is working fine for me.
  --
  regards, Maciej Suszko.
 
 
  What is the wireless chipset of your machine ?

 On mine nx7300 it is broadcom one and works fine via ndis.
 Suspend/resume works fine if second core is disabled and vesa is
 loaded in kernel
 (either via kldload or via custom kernel)
 Firewire and bluetooth are supported and should work without problems.
 Ethernet works via if_bfe; carbus, drm, sound works fine ...
 In short everything is supported on UP kernel except winmodem.

 There are some bugs in BIOS asl which I fixed adding:

 acpi_dsdt_load=YES
 acpi_dsdt_name=/boot/acpi.aml

 in /boot/loader.conf

 /boot/acpi.aml is modified version of ASL which address temperature
 is absurd, ignored
 type of messages.


 8.0 CURRENT i386.

 On 7.0, 7.1 and 7-STABLE there is still a little bit annoying message
 in dmesg on my nx7300, but i it's harmless as I suppose:
 acpi_tz0: _CRT value is absurd, ignored (256.0C)

Not for me, it caused livelocks in syscons while using powerd (h)adp mode,
making entire session useless and forcing me to reboot machine.

-- 
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Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-12 Thread Maciej Suszko
Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org wrote:
 On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Maciej Suszko wrote:
 
  Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org wrote:
   Hi all:
   
   i've looked at tuxmobil, bsdgroup.de etc and i don't want to use
   ndiswrapper, or broadcom or additional PCMCIA card at all.
   
   Is there a laptop model (available in market) that experienced
   members would like to recommend wherein 
. the WiFi 802.11 a/g (PCI based)
. Ethernet port 
. and ACPI 
   work absolutely fine with FreeBSD 7.x ?
  
  I use RELENG_7_1 and RELENG_7 on HP Compaq nx7300. I haven't tried
  the suspend/resume, firewire port and I suppose the modem is not
  going to work. Everything else is working fine for me.
  -- 
  regards, Maciej Suszko.
  
 
 What is the wireless chipset of your machine ?

Here's what pciconf says:
w...@pci0:16:0:0:   class=0x028000 card=0x135c103c chip=0x42228086
rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
device = '10418086 Intel 3945ABG Wireless LAN controller'
class  = network
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Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-12 Thread Maciej Suszko
Paul B. Mahol one...@gmail.com wrote:
 On 3/12/09, Maciej Suszko mac...@suszko.eu wrote:
  Paul B. Mahol one...@gmail.com wrote:
  On 3/13/09, Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org wrote:
   On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Maciej Suszko wrote:
  
   Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org wrote:
Hi all:
   
i've looked at tuxmobil, bsdgroup.de etc and i don't want to
use ndiswrapper, or broadcom or additional PCMCIA card at all.
   
Is there a laptop model (available in market) that experienced
members would like to recommend wherein
 . the WiFi 802.11 a/g (PCI based)
 . Ethernet port
 . and ACPI
work absolutely fine with FreeBSD 7.x ?
  
   I use RELENG_7_1 and RELENG_7 on HP Compaq nx7300. I haven't
   tried the suspend/resume, firewire port and I suppose the modem
   is not going to work. Everything else is working fine for me.
   --
   regards, Maciej Suszko.
  
  
   What is the wireless chipset of your machine ?
 
  On mine nx7300 it is broadcom one and works fine via ndis.
  Suspend/resume works fine if second core is disabled and vesa is
  loaded in kernel
  (either via kldload or via custom kernel)
  Firewire and bluetooth are supported and should work without
  problems. Ethernet works via if_bfe; carbus, drm, sound works
  fine ... In short everything is supported on UP kernel except
  winmodem.
 
  There are some bugs in BIOS asl which I fixed adding:
 
  acpi_dsdt_load=YES
  acpi_dsdt_name=/boot/acpi.aml
 
  in /boot/loader.conf
 
  /boot/acpi.aml is modified version of ASL which address
  temperature is absurd, ignored
  type of messages.
 
 
  8.0 CURRENT i386.
 
  On 7.0, 7.1 and 7-STABLE there is still a little bit annoying
  message in dmesg on my nx7300, but i it's harmless as I suppose:
  acpi_tz0: _CRT value is absurd, ignored (256.0C)
 
 Not for me, it caused livelocks in syscons while using powerd (h)adp
 mode, making entire session useless and forcing me to reboot machine.

I didn't notice such behavior - the only I observed is that running
powerd in adaptive mode, the lowest frequency supported by CPU is ,,too
low'' - I set 500MHz as the lowest possible via sysctl... but I'll take
a closer look on that :)
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Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-12 Thread Maciej Suszko
Paul B. Mahol one...@gmail.com wrote:
 On 3/13/09, Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org wrote:
  On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Maciej Suszko wrote:
 
  Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org wrote:
   Hi all:
  
   i've looked at tuxmobil, bsdgroup.de etc and i don't want to use
   ndiswrapper, or broadcom or additional PCMCIA card at all.
  
   Is there a laptop model (available in market) that experienced
   members would like to recommend wherein
. the WiFi 802.11 a/g (PCI based)
. Ethernet port
. and ACPI
   work absolutely fine with FreeBSD 7.x ?
 
  I use RELENG_7_1 and RELENG_7 on HP Compaq nx7300. I haven't tried
  the suspend/resume, firewire port and I suppose the modem is not
  going to work. Everything else is working fine for me.
  --
  regards, Maciej Suszko.
 
 
  What is the wireless chipset of your machine ?
 
 On mine nx7300 it is broadcom one and works fine via ndis.
 Suspend/resume works fine if second core is disabled and vesa is
 loaded in kernel
 (either via kldload or via custom kernel)
 Firewire and bluetooth are supported and should work without problems.
 Ethernet works via if_bfe; carbus, drm, sound works fine ...
 In short everything is supported on UP kernel except winmodem.
 
 There are some bugs in BIOS asl which I fixed adding:
 
 acpi_dsdt_load=YES
 acpi_dsdt_name=/boot/acpi.aml
 
 in /boot/loader.conf
 
 /boot/acpi.aml is modified version of ASL which address temperature
 is absurd, ignored
 type of messages.
 
 
 8.0 CURRENT i386.

On 7.0, 7.1 and 7-STABLE there is still a little bit annoying message
in dmesg on my nx7300, but i it's harmless as I suppose:
acpi_tz0: _CRT value is absurd, ignored (256.0C)
-- 
regards, Maciej Suszko.
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Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar

8.0 CURRENT i386.


On 7.0, 7.1 and 7-STABLE there is still a little bit annoying message
in dmesg on my nx7300, but i it's harmless as I suppose:
acpi_tz0: _CRT value is absurd, ignored (256.0C)


completely harmless, it's buggy ACPI.
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Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-12 Thread Chris Whitehouse

Saifi Khan wrote:

On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Chris Whitehouse wrote:


HP nc6320 (google RH383ET) - most things work, including wifi and ethernet,
except for the following:




From HP site,


Network
Integrated Broadcom NetLink Gigabit Ethernet PCI Controller
(10/100/1000 NIC)

Wireless
Broadcom 802.11a/b/g; Broadcom 802.11b/g; Bluetooth 2.0


It seems to have the US-trash-com chipset !

Do Atheros, Ralink, Realtek, Intel PRO/Wireless chipset work
with FreeBSD ?


thanks
Saifi.

What is the US-trash-com chipset and what makes it 'trash'? Is it poorly 
implemented hardware or problems with drivers? Or something else?


This machine uses wpi and bge. Both devices seem to work ok chucking 
files around a domestic network.


w...@pci0:8:0:0:class=0x028000 card=0x135c103c chip=0x42228086 
rev=0x02 hdr=0x00

vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
device = '10418086 Intel 3945ABG Wireless LAN controller'
class  = network
b...@pci0:2:14:0:   class=0x02 card=0x30aa103c chip=0x169c14e4 
rev=0x03 hdr=0x00

vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation'
device = 'BCM5788 Broadcom NetLink (TM) Gigabit Ethernet'
class  = network

Chris
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Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar


This machine uses wpi and bge. Both devices seem to work ok chucking files 
around a domestic network.


at least for wired network i never had a problem with broadcom chips



w...@pci0:8:0:0:class=0x028000 card=0x135c103c chip=0x42228086 
rev=0x02 hdr=0x00

   vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
   device = '10418086 Intel 3945ABG Wireless LAN controller'
   class  = network
b...@pci0:2:14:0:   class=0x02 card=0x30aa103c chip=0x169c14e4 
rev=0x03 hdr=0x00

   vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation'
   device = 'BCM5788 Broadcom NetLink (TM) Gigabit Ethernet'
   class  = network

Chris
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Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-12 Thread Chris Hill

On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, John Hendy wrote:

I've never heard of HEAD... I'm pretty new to freebsd, so that could 
very well be why! Google is just giving me search results with people 
doing such and such with 'freebsd-head', not what it is.


Since nobody else has chimed in... HEAD refers to the bleeding edge, aka 
CURRENT. It's what you get if you have


*default release=cvs tag=.

in your supfile when you update the system (not ports). It changes 
frequently. See 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html


[ Lengthy quote snipped 'cause this is OT anyway ]

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Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-11 Thread Chris Whitehouse

Saifi Khan wrote:

Hi all:

i've looked at tuxmobil, bsdgroup.de etc and i don't want to use
ndiswrapper, or broadcom or additional PCMCIA card at all.

Is there a laptop model (available in market) that experienced
members would like to recommend wherein 
 . the WiFi 802.11 a/g (PCI based)
 . Ethernet port 
 . and ACPI 
work absolutely fine with FreeBSD 7.x ?



thanks
Saifi.
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HP nc6320 (google RH383ET) - most things work, including wifi and 
ethernet, except for the following:


- gives a repeated message like acpi_tz0 absurd value ignoring
- dmesg shows dvd drive errors on each boot and later hald-addon-storage 
 will start using 100%cpu till it is killed (I think they are connected 
but haven't really investigated)
- with FreeBSD (latest PCBSD) cpu fan comes on more than it did with 
windows and battery doesn't last as long

- haven't tested suspend/resume or internal modem.
- don't think the finger print reader or the card reader are recognised.
- build quality is probably not as good as the IBM's

Sorry not to give exact messages, I'm at a different machine but I can 
give you dmesg etc later if required.


Chris

PS don't buy from laptopsdirect.co.uk unless you want to get spammed 
from them and various associated online shops.

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Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-11 Thread Saifi Khan
On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Chris Whitehouse wrote:

  
 HP nc6320 (google RH383ET) - most things work, including wifi and ethernet,
 except for the following:
 

From HP site,

Network
Integrated Broadcom NetLink Gigabit Ethernet PCI Controller
(10/100/1000 NIC)

Wireless
Broadcom 802.11a/b/g; Broadcom 802.11b/g; Bluetooth 2.0


It seems to have the US-trash-com chipset !

Do Atheros, Ralink, Realtek, Intel PRO/Wireless chipset work
with FreeBSD ?


thanks
Saifi.
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Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-11 Thread Kevin Oberman
 Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:25:28 + (GMT)
 From: Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org
 Sender: owner-freebsd-mob...@freebsd.org
 
 On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Chris Whitehouse wrote:
 
   
  HP nc6320 (google RH383ET) - most things work, including wifi and ethernet,
  except for the following:
  
 
 From HP site,
 
 Network
 Integrated Broadcom NetLink Gigabit Ethernet PCI Controller
 (10/100/1000 NIC)
 
 Wireless
 Broadcom 802.11a/b/g; Broadcom 802.11b/g; Bluetooth 2.0
 
 
 It seems to have the US-trash-com chipset !
 
 Do Atheros, Ralink, Realtek, Intel PRO/Wireless chipset work
 with FreeBSD ?

Atheros - if_ath
Ralink - if_ral
Realtek - Most if_re and if_rl
Intel PRO/Wireless - if_ipw, if_iwi, if_wpi

For the exact chips supported, see the man pages for the drivers.
-- 
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Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: ober...@es.net  Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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Re: FreeBSD 7.1R on laptop

2009-03-10 Thread Pongthep Kulkrisada
Hi,

Thanks for your response.

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 1:13 AM,  greg.st...@sungard.com wrote:
 Some laptops do come with COM ports still.  Usually they are the
 business models.  For example, the Dell Latitude 820's have them.
Actually I don't want to adhere with such thing.
I think laptop with COM port will be extinct very soon due to marketing.
I don't want to find the solution again after says 5 years.
I believe that MANY people here are using FreeBSD on laptops without COM port.
But I don't know how they fix the problem of internal modem built with
the laptop.
The only solution I can think right now is staying in LAN and behind NAT.

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Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-10 Thread Saifi Khan
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, Takashi Inoue wrote:

 Hi,
 
  i've looked at tuxmobil, bsdgroup.de etc and i don't want to use
  ndiswrapper, or broadcom or additional PCMCIA card at all.
  
  Is there a laptop model (available in market) that experienced
  members would like to recommend wherein 
   . the WiFi 802.11 a/g (PCI based)
   . Ethernet port . and ACPI 
  work absolutely fine with FreeBSD 7.x ?
 
 If you want to use ACPI suspend/resume,
 you need to kill one of two core in Core2Duo.
 If you want the both, choose Linux insted.
 
 Cheers,
 T. I.
 

Are you saying that ACPI implementation in FreeBSD is buggy ?

Do you have any suggestions about laptops to make (assuming ACPI
is disabled) ?


thanks
Saifi.
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Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-10 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:31:41AM +, Saifi Khan wrote:

 On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, Takashi Inoue wrote:
 
  Hi,
  
   i've looked at tuxmobil, bsdgroup.de etc and i don't want to use
   ndiswrapper, or broadcom or additional PCMCIA card at all.
   
   Is there a laptop model (available in market) that experienced
   members would like to recommend wherein 
. the WiFi 802.11 a/g (PCI based)
. Ethernet port . and ACPI 
   work absolutely fine with FreeBSD 7.x ?
  
  If you want to use ACPI suspend/resume,
  you need to kill one of two core in Core2Duo.
  If you want the both, choose Linux insted.
  
  Cheers,
  T. I.
  
 
 Are you saying that ACPI implementation in FreeBSD is buggy ?
 
 Do you have any suggestions about laptops to make (assuming ACPI
 is disabled) ?
 

You can still use ACPI, it's just that suspend/resume might not work.

If you use ACPI then you can run powerd(8) which will prolong battery
life.

I bought a Dell XPS1330 on which everything seems to work on 7.1-R;
even the fingerprint reader can be made to work (can't remember the
port to use). I don't use powerd as I usually have the laptop plugged in.

BTW, I've got an old Thinkpad and I much prefer the Trackpoint to the
Dell's Touchpad, YMMV.

So my advice is to look at the Thinkpads. A lot of BSD users use them
 their hardware is well supported by FreeBSD, I believe.

 
 thanks
 Saifi.

Regards,

-- 

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 Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html 

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Re: FreeBSD 7.1R on laptop

2009-03-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar

I am using FBSD 7.1R on PC. But yesterday (8 Mar 09) my hard disk was
physically broken. My machine is very old anyway. So I want to buy a
new laptop (notebook). I have some questions.


simply getting new hard drive could be enough.



1. Previously I use ADSL but now I go back to 56k serial modem. The
problem is new laptops do not provide COM port (/dev/cuad?). I must
use internal modem built with the laptop. I'm not sure whether this
internal modem can be found by FBSD 7.1R or not. If not, how to do?
(Sorry I never used laptop.)


check what modem. for lucent winmodems there is WORKING driver in ports. 
works on my IBM T23.


simply check the hardware. or use external modems with USB connector.

Check if Hayes compatible or so label are on modem package - if so, it 
behaves like serial port modem just connected through USB, you'll use some 
of USB serial port drivers.


if no - it's winmodem, most likely incompatible with anything except 
windoze.

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RE: FreeBSD 7.1R on laptop

2009-03-09 Thread Greg.Stark
Some laptops do come with COM ports still.  Usually they are the
business models.  For example, the Dell Latitude 820's have them.  



-Original Message-
From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Pongthep
Kulkrisada
Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 11:35 AM
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: FreeBSD 7.1R on laptop

Hi all,

I am using FBSD 7.1R on PC. But yesterday (8 Mar 09) my hard disk was
physically broken. My machine is very old anyway. So I want to buy a
new laptop (notebook). I have some questions.

1. Previously I use ADSL but now I go back to 56k serial modem. The
problem is new laptops do not provide COM port (/dev/cuad?). I must
use internal modem built with the laptop. I'm not sure whether this
internal modem can be found by FBSD 7.1R or not. If not, how to do?
(Sorry I never used laptop.)

2. Previously, I used LILO boot manager (from Linux) for selecting
FBSD, Linux or WinXP. But nowadays most of the time I use only FBSD
and don't use Linux at all. So I don't want to waste the space
installing linux on my new laptop. But I use XP occassionally. I need
to know whether FBSD boot manager can select and boot XP or not? How
to do it? I didn't find it in the handbook.
Note that I know grub. But I really want to know the way, the system
provide. Because I have a long story of this problem. Once (5 years
ago) I installed FBSD success but without caution. I rebooted then I
could not run the freshly installed system. Because there was no
options for selecting the new system. :-( That time I ended up with
LILO to fix the problem. But this time I just don't want to install
Linux. So I want to use only what, the system provides.

Thanks,
Pongthep
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Re: Wifi Card for laptop

2008-11-24 Thread Albert Shih
 Le 21/11/2008 à 09:48:17+0200, Giorgos Keramidas a écrit
Hi,

 
 Hmmm, that's a bit bad.  Is `Fn+F2' the key that turns wireless OFF/ON
 for this laptop?  Maybe the driver is crashing because the device
 detaches and re-attaches while the driver is stuck somewhere :(
 
 If you think you can grab a kernel dump from this, maybe it's going to
 be useful to debug the problem.

OK I find the problem (and solve-it ;-). 

In the bios there some (very strange for me) configuration for the wifi
card, it seem it's same card to handle wifi and bluetooth. And when I pres
Fn+F2 he switch to bluetooth and my laptop crash...

So because I don't have any bluetooth device I don't use it. After
disabling bluetooth in the bios everything work fine. 

  No driver (and of course not working)
 
  NetXtreme BCM5756ME Gigabit Ethernet PCIe
 
 I don't see `BCM5756' or `5756' anywhere in the manpages or the source
 of the kernel in of 8.0-CURRENT either.  I think this is not supported :(

So that answer my question about change to current...

 
  usable memory = 4278091776 (4079 MB)
  avail memory  = 4124418048 (3933 MB)
 
 Heh, nice.  I see you are running an amd64 build of FreeBSD, and there
 are *lots* of memory on this laptop :)

Yes I known ;-)

 One of the tests you can run, to find out what is broken in wpi(4), is
 to build a kernel with DDB/KDB support, and grab a kernel dump when the
 wpi(4) interface stops working.
 
 The ``Developer's Handbook'' can help you build a debugging kernel:
 
   
 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html
 
 Using DDB to trace through the `live' kernel while it is stuck is a bit
 tricky, but if you manage to grab some of the DDB output (i.e. with a
 serial console or even just a photograph with a camera), then we can
 mail the developers of wpi(4) and ask them for more help :)
 

OK. When I've some time I going to do this. 

Best Regards.

JAS
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Re: Wifi Card for laptop

2008-11-20 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:55:35 +0100, Albert Shih [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hi all

 I would like to buy a PCMCIA card for my new laptop (because FreeBSD
 do not recognise my internal wifi AND RJ45 ethernet cardsh**
 windows say it's Broadcom netXtreme 57xx gigabit ).

Hi Albert,

If you can find a PC-CARD (or `PCMCIA') that uses one of the supported
chipsets, then just go for it.

To see if the internal network interface card or wireless adapter work,
you can try running:

% pciconf -lv

Save this to a text file:

% pciconf -lv  pciconf.txt

Then you can use a USB flash drive to transfer the text file to a
machine that has email connectivity and post it here.  We can try to go
through the list of devices and check hardware compatibility for you.

If you do that, please include as much information as possible about the
FreeBSD version you are using, and any other bits you think are useful
to understand what hardware you are using (i.e. laptop model, laptop
maker, the output of the ``uname -a'' command, and so on).

 My local dealer have those card :

   Netgear WPN511 RangeMax
   Netgear WG511 | PCMCIA WiFi
   D-LINK DWA-610
   Trendnet TEW-421PC
   D-LINK DWA-645 RangeBooster N65 ...
   Linksys WPC54G
   Linksys WPC54GS Speedbooster
   Trendnet TEW-441PC

A list of the chipsets listed in the FreeBSD manpages is below.  See if
you can find out which chipsets these cards use, and try to find one
that matches at least one FreeBSD driver:

  an -- Aironet Communications 4500/4800 wireless network adapter driver

  o   Aironet Communications 4500 and 4800 series
  o   Cisco Aironet 340 and 350 series
  o   Xircom Wireless Ethernet Adapter

  ath -- Atheros IEEE 802.11 wireless network driver

  The ath driver provides support for wireless network adapters
  based on the Atheros AR5210, AR5211, and AR5212 programming APIs.

  ipw -- Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 IEEE 802.11 driver

  iwi -- Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG IEEE 802.11 driver

  The iwi driver provides support for Intel PRO/Wireless
  2200BG/2915ABG MiniPCI and 2225BG PCI network adapters.

  iwn -- Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN IEEE 802.11n driver

  The iwn driver provides support for Intel Wireless WiFi Link
  4965AGN PCI-Express network adapters.

  ral -- Ralink Technology IEEE 802.11 wireless network driver

  The ral driver supports PCI/CardBus wireless adapters based on the
  Ralink Technology RT2500, RT2501, and RT2600 chipsets.

  rum -- Ralink Technology USB IEEE 802.11a/b/g wireless network device

  The rum driver supports USB 2.0 and PCI Express Mini Card wireless
  adapters based on the Ralink RT2501USB and RT2601USB chipsets.

  wi -- Lucent Hermes, and Intersil PRISM IEEE 802.11 driver

  See the online manpage for a large listing of supported cards.

  wpi -- Intel 3945ABG Wireless LAN IEEE 802.11 driver

  See the online manpage for more details about supported cards.

  zyd -- ZyDAS ZD1211/ZD1211B USB IEEE 802.11b/g wireless network device

  See the online manpage for a large listing of supported cards.

You can find the original manpages online too.  Some of the manpages
[like ral(4) and rum(4)] have more detailed device listings, that may be
interesting to skim through.

 Or maybe you can help me to make my internet RJ45 card working ;-)

Let's see what ``pciconf -lv'' shows.  It may be a supported NIC, but
not in the `GENERIC' kernel configuration.  Loading a module may bring
it up, and then you will at least have *some* sort of networking.

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Re: Wifi Card for laptop

2008-11-20 Thread Albert Shih
 Le 20/11/2008 à 11:35:20+0200, Giorgos Keramidas a écrit

Hi,

First thanks you for you help

In fact I make the wifi run by using wpi driver.

 If you can find a PC-CARD (or `PCMCIA') that uses one of the supported
 chipsets, then just go for it.
 
 To see if the internal network interface card or wireless adapter work,
 you can try running:
 
 % pciconf -lv
 
 Save this to a text file:
 
 % pciconf -lv  pciconf.txt
 
 Then you can use a USB flash drive to transfer the text file to a
 machine that has email connectivity and post it here.  We can try to go
 through the list of devices and check hardware compatibility for you.
 
 If you do that, please include as much information as possible about the
 FreeBSD version you are using, and any other bits you think are useful
 to understand what hardware you are using (i.e. laptop model, laptop
 maker, the output of the ``uname -a'' command, and so on).

But if I can help to make more hardware working on FreeBSD  I would happy to
do that so let's go:

Hardware :

Dell laptop Precision M6300

Running wihtout problem:

touchpad
X11 (using nv drivers but not the «official» because I'm
running amd64 version).

running but with some problem :

wifi card : chipset 3945
drivers : wpi (compiling in kernel)
problem : sometime the wifi go down (the AP is at  1m) and
when I try to make that up again he don't work. If I try
the keyboard touch (Fn+F2) that's can crash (reboot) the
computer

Find drivers but not running :

sound. I got 
[root@ ~]# dmesg|grep pcm
pcm0: Intel 82801H High Definition Audio Controller mem 
0xf6ffc000-0xf6ff irq 21 at device 27.0 on pci0
pcm0: [ITHREAD]
pcm0: HDA Codec: Sigmatel STAC9205
pcm0: HDA Driver Revision: 20080420_0052
[root@ ~]# 

but I don't have dsp device in my /dev so no sound

No driver (and of course not working)

NetXtreme BCM5756ME Gigabit Ethernet PCIe

USB ports working.

I've not try Firewire, pccard, MIC. 

I'm running

FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE

make after csup (with tag=RELENG_7) and make buildworld;kernel.

I can make «any» test you want. Just ask me.


Bests regards.







Here my pciconf -lv


[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:0:0:  class=0x06 card=0x01f81028 chip=0x2a008086 
rev=0x0c hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
device = 'Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Express Processor to DRAM Controller'
class  = bridge
subclass   = HOST-PCI
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:1:0:   class=0x060400 card=0x01f81028 chip=0x2a018086 
rev=0x0c hdr=0x01
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
device = 'Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Express PCIe Root Port'
class  = bridge
subclass   = PCI-PCI
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:26:0:  class=0x0c0300 card=0x01f81028 chip=0x28348086 
rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
device = '82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI'
class  = serial bus
subclass   = USB
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:26:1:  class=0x0c0300 card=0x01f81028 chip=0x28358086 
rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
device = '82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI'
class  = serial bus
subclass   = USB
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:26:7:  class=0x0c0320 card=0x01f81028 chip=0x283a8086 
rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
device = '81EC1043 (?) ICH8 Enhanced USB2 Enhanced Host Controller'
class  = serial bus
subclass   = USB
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:27:0:   class=0x040300 card=0x01f81028 chip=0x284b8086 
rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
device = '82801H SUBSYS_81EC1043REV_02\3115836590D8'
class  = multimedia
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:28:0:  class=0x060400 card=0x01f81028 chip=0x283f8086 
rev=0x02 hdr=0x01
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
device = '82801H (ICH8 Family) PCIe Port 1'
class  = bridge
subclass   = PCI-PCI
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:28:1:  class=0x060400 card=0x01f81028 chip=0x28418086 
rev=0x02 hdr=0x01
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
device = '82801H (ICH8 Family) PCIe Port 2'
class  = bridge
subclass   = PCI-PCI
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:28:3:  class=0x060400 card=0x01f81028 chip=0x28458086 
rev=0x02 hdr=0x01
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
device = '82801H (ICH8 Family) PCIe Port 4'
class  = bridge
subclass   = PCI-PCI
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:28:5:  class=0x060400 card=0x01f81028 chip=0x28498086 
rev=0x02 hdr=0x01
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
device = '82801H (ICH8 Family) PCIe Port 6'
class  = bridge
subclass   = PCI-PCI [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:29:0:  

Re: Wifi Card for laptop

2008-11-20 Thread Albert Shih
 Le 21/11/2008 à 01:43:29+0100, Albert Shih a écrit
  Le 20/11/2008 à 11:35:20+0200, Giorgos Keramidas a écrit
 
After some google I find the patch 

http://people.freebsd.org/~mav/

for the sound problem. 

 
   Find drivers but not running :
 
   sound. I got 
   [root@ ~]# dmesg|grep pcm
   pcm0: Intel 82801H High Definition Audio Controller mem 
 0xf6ffc000-0xf6ff irq 21 at device 27.0 on pci0
   pcm0: [ITHREAD]
   pcm0: HDA Codec: Sigmatel STAC9205
   pcm0: HDA Driver Revision: 20080420_0052
   [root@ ~]# 
 

Regards.


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Re: Wifi Card for laptop

2008-11-20 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:43:29 +0100, Albert Shih [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 First thanks you for you help
 In fact I make the wifi run by using wpi driver.

That's nice, yes.  The wpi(4) driver seems to support the chipset of
your wlan adapter :)

   Running wihtout problem:

   touchpad
   X11 (using nv drivers but not the «official» because I'm
   running amd64 version).

   running but with some problem :

   wifi card : chipset 3945
   drivers : wpi (compiling in kernel)
   problem : sometime the wifi go down (the AP is at  1m) and
   when I try to make that up again he don't work. If I try
   the keyboard touch (Fn+F2) that's can crash (reboot) the
   computer

Hmmm, that's a bit bad.  Is `Fn+F2' the key that turns wireless OFF/ON
for this laptop?  Maybe the driver is crashing because the device
detaches and re-attaches while the driver is stuck somewhere :(

If you think you can grab a kernel dump from this, maybe it's going to
be useful to debug the problem.

   No driver (and of course not working)

   NetXtreme BCM5756ME Gigabit Ethernet PCIe

I don't see `BCM5756' or `5756' anywhere in the manpages or the source
of the kernel in of 8.0-CURRENT either.  I think this is not supported :(

 I'm running

   FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE

 make after csup (with tag=RELENG_7) and make buildworld;kernel.

 I can make «any» test you want. Just ask me.

 usable memory = 4278091776 (4079 MB)
 avail memory  = 4124418048 (3933 MB)

Heh, nice.  I see you are running an amd64 build of FreeBSD, and there
are *lots* of memory on this laptop :)

One of the tests you can run, to find out what is broken in wpi(4), is
to build a kernel with DDB/KDB support, and grab a kernel dump when the
wpi(4) interface stops working.

The ``Developer's Handbook'' can help you build a debugging kernel:

  
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html

Using DDB to trace through the `live' kernel while it is stuck is a bit
tricky, but if you manage to grab some of the DDB output (i.e. with a
serial console or even just a photograph with a camera), then we can
mail the developers of wpi(4) and ask them for more help :)

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Re: Wifi Card for laptop

2008-11-18 Thread Dan
Albert Shih([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2008.11.18 15:55:35 +0100:
 
   Netgear WPN511 RangeMax
   
   Netgear WG511 | PCMCIA WiFi 
   
   D-LINK DWA-610
   
   D-LINK DWL-G630
   
   Trendnet TEW-421PC
   
   D-LINK DWA-645 RangeBooster N65 ...
   
   Linksys WPC54G
   
   Linksys WPC54GS Speedbooster
   
   Trendnet TEW-441PC


The Ralink chipset is well supported, and they are cheap cards. I have
this one:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833315047

It works well even in host-ap mode, good reception. Did I mention
cheap??
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Re: Wifi Card for laptop

2008-11-18 Thread Wojciech Puchar


D-LINK DWL-G630

Trendnet TEW-421PC

D-LINK DWA-645 RangeBooster N65 ...

Linksys WPC54G

Linksys WPC54GS Speedbooster

Trendnet TEW-441PC

ask about chipset they use and then look at FreeBSD site for hardware 
compatibility. FreeBSD supports a lot of wireless cards.


sometimes even more works using driver converter (ndisgen) that converts 
windows XP drivers. But performance may (will) be lower.



Or maybe you can help me to make my internet RJ45 card working ;-)


what it is? FreeBSD supports most (but not all) network cards
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Re: Wifi Card for laptop

2008-11-18 Thread Albert Shih
 Le 18/11/2008 à 16:43:47+0100, Wojciech Puchar a écrit
 
  D-LINK DWL-G630
 
  Trendnet TEW-421PC
 
  D-LINK DWA-645 RangeBooster N65 ...
 
  Linksys WPC54G
 
  Linksys WPC54GS Speedbooster
 
  Trendnet TEW-441PC
 
 ask about chipset they use and then look at FreeBSD site for hardware 
 compatibility. FreeBSD supports a lot of wireless cards.
 
 sometimes even more works using driver converter (ndisgen) that converts 
 windows XP drivers. But performance may (will) be lower.

After some research on Internet (with other machine ;-) ) I finaly make the
wifi card working. Using wpi driver. 

 
  Or maybe you can help me to make my internet RJ45 card working ;-)
 
 what it is? FreeBSD supports most (but not all) network cards

It's Broadcom 5756.

I known it's very close to 57xx but...it's not working.

Thanks for your help.

Regards.
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Re: Wifi Card for laptop

2008-11-18 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 18 November 2008 09:55:35 am Albert Shih wrote:
 Hi all

 I would like to buy a PCMCIA card for my new laptop (because FreeBSD do
 not recognise my internal wifi AND RJ45 ethernet cardsh** windows
 say it's Broadcom netXtreme 57xx gigabit ).

 So I just want to known what 802.11G card I can buy without drivers
 problem.

 My local dealer have those card :
[snip]
   Trendnet TEW-441PC

I ordered this card from newegg not long ago. It's inexpensive and 
well-supported by the ath(4) driver (unlike the (slightly cheaper) other 
trendnet card you mentioned).

JN
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Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: One Laptop Per Child

2007-11-12 Thread Bill Campbell
On Mon, Nov 12, 2007, Pollywog wrote:
On Monday 12 November 2007 19:06:28 Chuck Robey wrote:

 I wish it wasn't this way.  Maybe it's just in the schools I visited?
 If so, anyone have a better experience?  Until I hear of some, I won't
 contribute to any computers for kids deal, because  it only benefits
 big computer companies, who sell the machines, not the kids.

It is true that the companies that sell computers and software benefit, but 
the same could be said of companies that sell state-approved textbooks to 
schools (if you have seen those textbooks you know what I mean), the 
companies that sell shoes for sports, etc.  There is one large software 
company that gives some software to schools and then gets a tax cut even 
though it benefits down the line when those kids grow up to buy that 
company's software because that is the software they know.

The biggest problem I see with computers in classrooms is that
they distract the student's attention from the teacher.  I know
that I have to back away from my computer completely when talking
on the phone, unless I'm doing direct support at the time,
because I find myself distracted from the conversation.

I'll leave it at that as I don't want to take this in the
direction of government schools as indoctrination centers.

Bill
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Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: One Laptop Per Child

2007-11-12 Thread Chuck Robey

Pollywog wrote:

On Monday 12 November 2007 19:06:28 Chuck Robey wrote:

I wish it wasn't this way.  Maybe it's just in the schools I visited?
If so, anyone have a better experience?  Until I hear of some, I won't
contribute to any computers for kids deal, because  it only benefits
big computer companies, who sell the machines, not the kids.


It is true that the companies that sell computers and software benefit, but 
the same could be said of companies that sell state-approved textbooks to 
schools (if you have seen those textbooks you know what I mean), the 
companies that sell shoes for sports, etc.  There is one large software 
company that gives some software to schools and then gets a tax cut even 
though it benefits down the line when those kids grow up to buy that 
company's software because that is the software they know.


Yeah, but in this case, I know more: a lady friend of mine was an editor 
for a large educational publishing house.  Those places (and more 
specifically the folks that work in them) are rather embarrassed at 
having to put all that garbage into state textbooks, but the state 
boards of education require it.  They don't want to do it, but they have 
to, to be able to sell their product.  The local state officials are at 
fault here, not the companies nor those who work for them.  I used to 
listen by the hour to complaints about the stupidity and cupidity of 
those state officials, from that lady.


I still think it is better for kids to know how to use computers, even if a 
few business people also benefit.


Hmm.  Several of the classes I walked into were disappointing to me, 
where the kids were made to feel good at being able to play computer 
games well.  If you think that's good for kids, it's your money, I 
suppose.  The teachers were given no training whatever in computers, so 
they had no ability to do better.  I would not contribute to such an 
item.  A program that produces better educational software, that I could 
see, but not giving computers to schools, that is very counter-productive.


Let them eat Doom!  I think we should move this to FreeBSD-chat.



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Re: fresh install - compaq laptop locks up on boot after timecounter TSC

2007-01-06 Thread Micah

Steve Franks wrote:

This is why no one ever got fired for buying an IBM as the old adage goes.
My ancient Dell laptop had absolutely no install issues, so I bought a 
fresh

disk for my shiny new compaq:

Behavior is identical off of 6.1-current cd or install to ad0 that was
completed from cd safemode boot.  She runs fine in safemode from acd0 or
ad0.  Regular startup - see vga0 go by sucessfully, then

timcounter TSC...
ticks at 1 milliseconds

then locks up tight.  I tried disabling the line after vga0 in
boot/device.hints, but those of you who know what that is know, I'm sure,
that that turns my system into a peperweight.

I also tried boot with acpi disabled, but that seems to lock up identically
on tsc.

Wish I had more info, but that's all I can glean without more help.  Had to
put the origonal harddisk with winXP back in.  No one wants that ;)  Save
me!

Steve


Sounds similar to the problem my Compaq has/had. I found that the 
following advice, posted to questions@ some time ago, worked for me:


 Interrupt the kernel loading process, then:

 set hint.sio.0.disabled=1
 set hint.sio.1.disabled=1
 set hint.atkbd.0.flags=0x9

HTH,
Micah
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Re: fresh install - compaq laptop locks up on boot after timecounter TSC

2007-01-06 Thread Steve Franks

Thanks for that.  Unfortunately, no change, but I'm going to start combing
device.hints for any devices my laptop doesn't have, and turn them all off,
maybe I'll get lucky.

Looks like I can install amd64 on it, but I don't think the
currently-running i386 6.1 release is the problem, you'd think if the
processor type was the issue it wouldn't run at all.

Steve

On 1/6/07, Micah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Steve Franks wrote:
 This is why no one ever got fired for buying an IBM as the old adage
goes.
 My ancient Dell laptop had absolutely no install issues, so I bought a
 fresh
 disk for my shiny new compaq:

 Behavior is identical off of 6.1-current cd or install to ad0 that was
 completed from cd safemode boot.  She runs fine in safemode from acd0 or
 ad0.  Regular startup - see vga0 go by sucessfully, then

 timcounter TSC...
 ticks at 1 milliseconds

 then locks up tight.  I tried disabling the line after vga0 in
 boot/device.hints, but those of you who know what that is know, I'm
sure,
 that that turns my system into a peperweight.

 I also tried boot with acpi disabled, but that seems to lock up
identically
 on tsc.

 Wish I had more info, but that's all I can glean without more help.  Had
to
 put the origonal harddisk with winXP back in.  No one wants that
;)  Save
 me!

 Steve

Sounds similar to the problem my Compaq has/had. I found that the
following advice, posted to questions@ some time ago, worked for me:

 Interrupt the kernel loading process, then:

 set hint.sio.0.disabled=1
 set hint.sio.1.disabled=1
 set hint.atkbd.0.flags=0x9

HTH,
Micah





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Re: fresh install - compaq laptop locks up on boot after timecounter TSC

2007-01-06 Thread Steve Franks

Correction: that may have been the issue: I removed the fdc  fd, and
realized I had disabled sio0, not sio.0so for the future, it's that or
the floppy.  I don't intend to re-enable the floppy, as I don't have one
anyway, so thanks for the leg-up!

Steve

On 1/6/07, Steve Franks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Thanks for that.  Unfortunately, no change, but I'm going to start combing
device.hints for any devices my laptop doesn't have, and turn them all
off, maybe I'll get lucky.

Looks like I can install amd64 on it, but I don't think the
currently-running i386 6.1 release is the problem, you'd think if the
processor type was the issue it wouldn't run at all.

Steve

On 1/6/07, Micah  [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Steve Franks wrote:
  This is why no one ever got fired for buying an IBM as the old adage
 goes.
  My ancient Dell laptop had absolutely no install issues, so I bought a
  fresh
  disk for my shiny new compaq:
 
  Behavior is identical off of 6.1-current cd or install to ad0 that was
  completed from cd safemode boot.  She runs fine in safemode from acd0
 or
  ad0.  Regular startup - see vga0 go by sucessfully, then
 
  timcounter TSC...
  ticks at 1 milliseconds
 
  then locks up tight.  I tried disabling the line after vga0 in
  boot/device.hints, but those of you who know what that is know, I'm
 sure,
  that that turns my system into a peperweight.
 
  I also tried boot with acpi disabled, but that seems to lock up
 identically
  on tsc.
 
  Wish I had more info, but that's all I can glean without more
 help.  Had to
  put the origonal harddisk with winXP back in.  No one wants that
 ;)  Save
  me!
 
  Steve

 Sounds similar to the problem my Compaq has/had. I found that the
 following advice, posted to questions@ some time ago, worked for me:

  Interrupt the kernel loading process, then:
 
  set hint.sio.0.disabled=1
  set hint.sio.1.disabled=1
  set hint.atkbd.0.flags=0x9

 HTH,
 Micah




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(520) 312-0089





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Re: Quick mail advice / Laptop use

2006-11-28 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 10:30:09 -
Graham Bentley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 And lastly, APM or ACPI what the best one to go 
 with on my HP OmniBook 6000 and how to configure
 suspend etc etc

if you can, ACPI. if it doesn't work, try APM.

Check the handbook for docs on this - else the archives for mobile@ and
questions@ have LOTS on these 2 subjects.

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Re: Quick mail advice / Laptop use

2006-11-28 Thread Frank Shute
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 10:30:09AM -, Graham Bentley wrote:

 Hi All,
 
 I noticed that fetchmail created a file mbox but
 Mutt creates a 'Mail' directory however the mail 
 seems to download into /var/mail
 
 Mutt asks me on exit to copy to mbox format.
 
 The Mail directory also has only one folder and
 on exit is empty. /var/mail still has copies.
 
 Can anyone clear up my confusions ;
 
 Where should mail be located ?

Depends om what softs you are using. I use qmail, procmail and getmail
so I use Maildirs 

 How can I configure a 'sent items' for Mutt?

I don't know what this means. If you want a copy of all your outgoing
then put:

set copy=yes

in .muttrc

 How can I create an address book for Mutt?

touch a file called .mail_aliases in your homedir and fill it with
your addresses, one per line. E.g:

alias b FreeBSD UK [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Put:

set alias_file=~/.mail_aliases 
source .mail_aliases 

in .muttrc

You should then be able to mail freebsd-users UK by putting b in the
To: field (it will expand). Or hitting t and then tab will bring up
all your aliases to choose from.

Once you've got a few addresses in .mail_aliases run it through
sort(1) to make it more easily readable.

 
 I know this would be better on the Mutt list
 but I also know there are some big Mutt fans
 here and asI am trying this on FreeBSD maybe
 more relevent ?

Your best bet is either to join the mutt mailing list or
comp.mail.mutt. This is OT for freebsd-questions.

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Re: tracking a stolen laptop?

2006-10-07 Thread Erik Norgaard

Jonathan Nichols wrote:

I am trying to track down a stolen laptop. My laptop did not have BSD
downloaded, but is there any way yet by which I may be able to track
my laptop with your help?  I would like to get BSD if I get my
computer back.  Thanks for any help or advice you can offer.


The short answer: no.

Your laptop doesn't phone home unless you configure it to - if it had 
windows maybe call Microsoft, I've heard their computers contact M$ on a 
regular basis.


If you before hand had installed some tool that calls home then it would 
be possible to track it by the ip and possibly routing information it 
uses when it calls. But that's too late now.


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Re: tracking a stolen laptop?

2006-10-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 10:04:24PM -0400, Jonathan Nichols wrote:

 I am trying to track down a stolen laptop. My laptop did not have BSD
 downloaded, but is there any way yet by which I may be able to track
 my laptop with your help?  I would like to get BSD if I get my
 computer back.  Thanks for any help or advice you can offer.

It would be difficult.  
But, do  you know the MAC address of the NIC card?
That might help if they get on the net with it.

jerry

 
 Jonathan Nichols
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Re: hp or Toshiba laptop?

2006-09-08 Thread Parv
Sorry for using somebody else's reply to reply to OP as I had
deleted the OP.

in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Joel Dahl
thusly...

 On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 08:38 -0400, Christian Lopez de Castilla
 Wagner wrote:
 
  I'm looking into buying a new laptop in the next week
...
  Toshiba Tecra A6-SP3032 (Core Duo 1.83GHz, Intel PRO/Wireless
  3945ABG (802.11a/b/g)
...

I happen to be currently using Toshiba Satellite A105-40xx (work
computer), which cost around $800-900 from Circuit City or Best Buy
(US chain stores).  After few weeks of usage, the keyboard turns out
to be rather crappy.  When i type -- my typing speed is around 25
wpm  not much of a touch typist -- the keys (more likely the
spring) whine as if they need lubrication  have become rather
loose.

On another Toshiba Satellite, about a year old (as overheard from a
coworker; I used it for 2-3 months), Fn key has become so
ridiculously loose it behaves like a loose leaf paper covering a
sauce pan.

So, be mindful of Tecra's keyboard.

OTOH, two year old IBM Thinkpad T42's ($1600) keyboard is working
wonderfully; five old Dell Inspiron 5000e's (a thousand some dollars
at the time) keyboard is still better than above mentioned new
Toshiba Satellite.


  - Parv

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Fwd: Re: hp or Toshiba laptop?

2006-09-08 Thread Ivailo Bonev

From: Ivailo Bonev [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Parv [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc:
Subject: Re: hp or Toshiba laptop?
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2006 23:52:44 +0300

On Fri, 08 Sep 2006 09:14:26 +0300, Parv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Sorry for using somebody else's reply to reply to OP as I had
deleted the OP.

in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Joel Dahl
thusly...


On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 08:38 -0400, Christian Lopez de Castilla
Wagner wrote:

 I'm looking into buying a new laptop in the next week

...

 Toshiba Tecra A6-SP3032 (Core Duo 1.83GHz, Intel PRO/Wireless
 3945ABG (802.11a/b/g)

...

I happen to be currently using Toshiba Satellite A105-40xx (work
computer), which cost around $800-900 from Circuit City or Best Buy
(US chain stores).  After few weeks of usage, the keyboard turns out
to be rather crappy.  When i type -- my typing speed is around 25
wpm  not much of a touch typist -- the keys (more likely the
spring) whine as if they need lubrication  have become rather
loose.

On another Toshiba Satellite, about a year old (as overheard from a
coworker; I used it for 2-3 months), Fn key has become so
ridiculously loose it behaves like a loose leaf paper covering a
sauce pan.

So, be mindful of Tecra's keyboard.

OTOH, two year old IBM Thinkpad T42's ($1600) keyboard is working
wonderfully; five old Dell Inspiron 5000e's (a thousand some dollars
at the time) keyboard is still better than above mentioned new
Toshiba Satellite.


  - Parv



And my 2-year Toshiba Portege burned. Sorry Toshiba, but thats the truth.
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Re: hp or Toshiba laptop?

2006-09-07 Thread Joel Dahl
On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 08:38 -0400, Christian Lopez de Castilla Wagner
wrote:
 Hi guys,
 I'm looking into buying a new laptop in the next week,
 due to budget, time and the fact that I'm near the end of civilization
 right now,
 I have the following choices:
 Toshiba Tecra A6-SP3032 (Core Duo 1.83GHz, Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG
 (802.11a/b/g),  Intel PRO/1000 VE 10/100/1000 Base-TX, FastIR, Intel
 GMA950, Realtek ALC861 Audio, 5-in-1 cardreader, FireWire)
 or
 hp nx6320 (Same specs, except Broadcom NetLink Gig-Ethernet (BCM5788M)
 and ADI1981HD audio, no cardreader).

I'd go for the HP.  I bought a HP nx7400 2 weeks ago (which has similar
specs) and everything except sound and the wireless stuff seems to work.
A Beta driver for the sound exists and it works well on my laptop, but
it hasn't been committed to current yet.  Dunno about the status of
wireless support, but I heard rumors about a port of the wpi(4) driver
from OpenBSD.

-- 
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Re: wlan on lowend laptop

2006-05-07 Thread albi
Lars Udo wrote:

 My desktop is FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE and laptop has NetBSD 3.0 with standalone
 X  few apps just to survive if
 my desktop-pc is down. I'm planning to change into FreeNX if it gives any
 advantage, but that would require to replace my laptop with freebsd as
 it is
 my favorite OS that has FreeNX client.
 
 Is it possible to keep up with this setup with changin all the wires with
 wireless-future. If WAP/WEP is the problem, couldn i just leave it out and
 use IPsec, or ssh instead? Or is WAP/WEP mandatory, or is it just enough if
 i set tight firewall-rules on both ends of wlan with IPsec, so no one could
 intrude into my system.

FreeNX uses ssh already, and you can enable SSL in it also, so it sounds
to me that it's a matter of restricting access from and to your wireless
(ip-address/mac-address e.g.)

(if you're really paranoid : WEP is cracked already, and certain setups
of WPA are also not so secure :-)

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Re: wlan on lowend laptop

2006-05-07 Thread Lars Udo

Security is no problem to me, but the problem that i'm most worried is my
budjet. If my laptop cant run wlan (for some weird reason that linux guy
couldnt even name) so all the effort would be worthless.

2006/5/7, albi [EMAIL PROTECTED]:


Lars Udo wrote:

 My desktop is FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE and laptop has NetBSD 3.0 with
standalone
 X  few apps just to survive if
 my desktop-pc is down. I'm planning to change into FreeNX if it gives
any
 advantage, but that would require to replace my laptop with freebsd as
 it is
 my favorite OS that has FreeNX client.

 Is it possible to keep up with this setup with changin all the wires
with
 wireless-future. If WAP/WEP is the problem, couldn i just leave it out
and
 use IPsec, or ssh instead? Or is WAP/WEP mandatory, or is it just enough
if
 i set tight firewall-rules on both ends of wlan with IPsec, so no one
could
 intrude into my system.

FreeNX uses ssh already, and you can enable SSL in it also, so it sounds
to me that it's a matter of restricting access from and to your wireless
(ip-address/mac-address e.g.)

(if you're really paranoid : WEP is cracked already, and certain setups
of WPA are also not so secure :-)

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Re: wlan on lowend laptop

2006-05-07 Thread Lars Udo

2006/5/7, Hunter Fuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]:



On  07 May 2006, at 9:19 AM, Lars Udo wrote:

 i have a litlle problem with all these wires running here and there
 in my
 flat, and as i got a woman living here with me.. i cant stand her
 complaining about those ugly wires allover the house. One beautiful
 day, i
 decided to get involved with wlan. But this one linux-dude said
 that my
 p233mmx/64ram couldnt run wlan.
Lies, all lies! My P200/32mB RAM with 6.0-RELEASE acts as an AP or a
client with WEP, WPA, etc with no issues.



Thanks for your opinion :)


I dont know if he ment WAP/WEP-encryption as
 he couldnt be any spesific and that got me thinking if he even knows
 anything.

 My setup these days is following: 1Ghz/256ddr (Desktop mahcine,
 with ssh
 Xforwarding) via 10Mbit LAN,
 and my laptop just happens to get a lot faster when i run all apps
 on that
 desktop-pc.
Good idea, does it lag at all? I'm thinking of configuring that.



Yes it lags a little, but nothing compared for opera running natively
on laptop. Normally, websites
renders pic by pic.. but with this configuration, it all just jumps on
the screen instantly
after short period time of 'thinkin' which is about 1sec. I think that
100Mbit would be a great improvement.



 My desktop is FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE and laptop has NetBSD 3.0 with
 standalone
 X  few apps just to survive if
 my desktop-pc is down. I'm planning to change into FreeNX if it
 gives any
 advantage, but that would require to replace my laptop with freebsd
 as it is
 my favorite OS that has FreeNX client.

 Is it possible to keep up with this setup with changin all the
 wires with
 wireless-future. If WAP/WEP is the problem, couldn i just leave it
 out and
 use IPsec, or ssh instead?
If you're really having issues... then yeah.
 Or is WAP/WEP mandatory, or is it just enough if
 i set tight firewall-rules on both ends of wlan with IPsec, so no
 one could
 intrude into my system.
Depends if you live around people or in the middle of nowhere. The
latter is the case for me, so I don't worry about security.

 If all goes well, my next sted would be to include one windows-pc
 also.. and
 that would need firewall for local wlan-crackers but somehow i dont
 believe
 that as a minor threat :)
It'd be fine, you just  need proper firewalls, anti-virus, etc.

 Lasse
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Re: USB Mouse on Laptop

2006-05-03 Thread M.Stegenburgs
Hi,

moused_type=auto
works nice on my Toshiba.
Well, it does not map all the buttons of my Logitech trackball, but basic 
functions switches on the fly.

Regards,
Maris

On Wed, 3 May 2006 01:27:18 +
Jonathan Herriott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hi!
 
 I currently just fixed moused to start up using my laptop's mousepad in
 /etc/rc.conf using the following options:
 
 moused_enable=YES
 moused_port=/dev/psm0
 moused_flags= #This is another problem of mine, I can't get the four
 extra buttons on my mousepad to work because I don't know what to specify
 with -z, but this isn't the point of this post
 moused_type=ps/2
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Re: gmirror on a laptop.

2006-03-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 3/11/06, Patrick Bowen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 List;

 I wanted to fiddle around with gmirror(8) on a Dell C-600 Laptop. It has
 a 2-slice, 20 Gig HD, and I essentially wanted to mirror ad0s1 to ad0s2.
 I realize this will put the HD under stress, but otherwise it seems do-able.

 What I want to know is whether this is such an incredibly bad idea I
 shouldn't even consider it --or-- it seems like a good way to get
 familiar with gmirror, so go for it.

Besides slowing down your I/O, it shouldn't be a huge deal.
I don't know that there's a whole lot to learn about gmirror,
but in the interest of furthering debate, I've done more than
a little bit of learning in those areas thanks to the joys of
qemu.  It does have the advantage of not trashing your desktop
if you should do something horribly silly, as I would admit to
being wont.

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Re: gmirror on a laptop.

2006-03-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
Patrick Bowen wrote:
 I wanted to fiddle around with gmirror(8) on a Dell C-600 Laptop. It has
 a 2-slice, 20 Gig HD, and I essentially wanted to mirror ad0s1 to ad0s2.
 I realize this will put the HD under stress, but otherwise it seems
 do-able.
 
 What I want to know is whether this is such an incredibly bad idea I
 shouldn't even consider it --or-- it seems like a good way to get
 familiar with gmirror, so go for it.

If you want to do this for the sake of practice, by all means, feel free.

However, mirroring onto the same device is going to result in almost no benefit
to reliability and will cause a very large performance hit, as well as reducing
the usable amount of disk space in half.  (In other words, actually leaving the
machine set up that way would be an incredibly bad idea.)

-- 
-Chuck
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Re: gmirror on a laptop.

2006-03-12 Thread Patrick Bowen

Chuck Swiger wrote:


Patrick Bowen wrote:
 


I wanted to fiddle around with gmirror(8) on a Dell C-600 Laptop. It has
a 2-slice, 20 Gig HD, and I essentially wanted to mirror ad0s1 to ad0s2.
I realize this will put the HD under stress, but otherwise it seems
do-able.

What I want to know is whether this is such an incredibly bad idea I
shouldn't even consider it --or-- it seems like a good way to get
familiar with gmirror, so go for it.
   



If you want to do this for the sake of practice, by all means, feel free.

However, mirroring onto the same device is going to result in almost no benefit
to reliability and will cause a very large performance hit, as well as reducing
the usable amount of disk space in half.  (In other words, actually leaving the
machine set up that way would be an incredibly bad idea.)

 


Mr. Swiger;

I agree, except that I had anticipated absolutely *no* benefit to 
reliability. If the disk goes bad, then having a mirror on the same 
disk, different slice, would still give me...no disk. I simply wanted to 
get the practice by actually doing, instead of just reading about it. 
I'll probably re-install Slackware on the other slice when I get done 
playing around.


Thanks,
Patrick
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Re: Compaq Pressario 700 (laptop): X totally unconfigurable

2006-01-26 Thread Lorin Lund

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Hello,

I just received FreeBSD 6.0. It installed flawlessly on a Compaq Pressario 700 Athlonbased laptop until I rebooted and saw that the viewable portion of the screen was in the upper left quarter of the screen. The resolution appears to be set alright based on the icon size in KDE (which works well), it's just the viewable portion of the desktop. As a visual: if you divided your screen now into quarters and got rid of all the right side and lower left corner, what you have left is what I see: makes viewing a mess. 


The pcmcia card works fine - no connection problems, just this viewable screen 
issue. I tried to go into XF86config, but was spit back to the shell prompt: I 
can't go any further. I have installed more than five times trying to change 
this, but it doesn't allow me access to the config file. Other than continuing 
to play with installations, are there any methods you suggest I use to access 
the config file?

Caveat: I have RTFM, docs, mans, etc, but I haven't seen this problem 
documented anywhere. I am Linux convert and am familiar with much of this, 
however I wonder if it isn't a matter of semantics when I was searching 
information - I have no idea.

Any assistance is greatly appreciated.

/fred
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Configuring X for notebook PCs is a puzzle.  I just installed on a 
Toshiba Satelite Pro.  The
default configuration listed the wrong driver.  Once I found out the 
right driver all I had to do
was to add the extra resolutions to the config file.  You mentioned 
Xfree86.  So it sounds
like you aren't going with Xorg.  I would think it makes little 
difference at this point.  They
are still quite similar.   I have mine set up as dual boot with Windows 
XP.  That gave me

info about the video card and the available resolutions.

Even after you get the video resolved you may have some work to get the 
keyboard to not
give occasional repeated keystroks (seems to be related to key-up event). 


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Re: Sound Configuration, Sony Laptop with ac97

2005-11-17 Thread Peter Clutton
On 11/17/05, Dev Tugnait [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Do a kldload snd_driver, then test your sound. This loads all the sound
 drivers...then go from there

Ok i have done a kldload snd_driver and it recognises it perfectly.
Got Ac97 and ID and memory info etc on the dmesg line. However nothing
actually comes out of the speaker. I am using gnome. It asked me to
run esd which i did, and esd program didn't return my prompt. I left
it, and even after a reboot it was avaliable in my Multimedia
Selector which also lets you run a test on output. I got no sound
from speakers, or from connecting to external speaker/headphones.
Also tested CD's, which I could see the program were playing but
nothing coming out. However when I open Volume Control it is set to
OSS - Null and not esd. Could this be causing a problem? I did play
around with OSS at one stage trying to get it work. Is there any other
way to test the device?

By the was, the speakers themselves are turned up, as well as the
Volume control in gnome.

It seems strange as the driver recognises the sound device perfectly
(i added snd_driver_load=YES to /boot/loader.conf and that works
too) but yet there is no sound. Any ideas?? Thanks very much for the
help so far.
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Re: Sound Configuration, Sony Laptop with ac97

2005-11-17 Thread Owen Jeremiah
IIRC, the recommended step to do is do:
kldload snd_driver

and then do:
cat /dev/sndstat

to get the correct driver (in my case it is snd_ich). After that you put the
driver into loder.conf (in my case: snd_ich_load=YES).

Hope it helps.

Regards,
OJ
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Re: Sound Configuration, Sony Laptop with ac97

2005-11-17 Thread Peter Clutton
On 11/17/05, Owen Jeremiah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 IIRC, the recommended step to do is do:
 kldload snd_driver
 and then do:
 cat /dev/sndstat
 to get the correct driver (in my case it is snd_ich). After that you put the
 driver into loder.conf (in my case: snd_ich_load=YES).

Thanks but i have done that, and the driver seems to be working fine.
The problem is that nothing is coming out of the speakers. I have a
feeling that it has something to do with the Volume Control applet in
gnome pointing to OSS Null and giving me no other option (eg esd).

Only other thing could be these on touch sound buttons on the
laptop, for mute and outside sound (by default), but they are really
soft keys, so they couldn't really have turned off the sound, and now
be not responding (which was one of my early theories. Any help would
be appreciated,
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Re: Sound Configuration, Sony Laptop with ac97

2005-11-16 Thread Dev Tugnait
Do a kldload snd_driver, then test your sound. This loads all the sound
drivers...then go from there

On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 15:41 +1100, Peter Clutton wrote:
 Hi everyone, wondering if anybody could help me out. I'm running
 FreeBSD 5.4-release on a Sony Vaio, and just about everything worked
 right off the bat. However when starting Gnome, i get a message about
 how it can't open the sound device, and sound just isn't working for
 me.
 
 The sound device listed in Sony's specs says ac97-compatible on board
 sound. I tried the open source sound drivers with no luck. Has anybody
 else been successful getting this sound device up and running? I know
 it's quite a common chip (my desktop, m$, uses it aswell). Is there
 perhaps just an option I can add to the kernel? That would be a
 no-brainer, i just need to know what to add.
 
 Feel free to ask for more info, I will post exact messages, specs, and
 output from any commands that may help you. Thanks in advance.
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Re: Sound Configuration, Sony Laptop with ac97

2005-11-16 Thread Peter Clutton
On 11/17/05, Dev Tugnait [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Do a kldload snd_driver, then test your sound. This loads all the sound
 drivers...then go from there

Thanks for that, I forgot to mention I had tried that to no avail. It
doesn't seem to recognise it. I will do it again so I can say exactly
what happens when i do that. I was wondering if anyone knew a specific
kernel option, like snd_sbc that supports this chip, and what steps
others have gone through with this chip. I may have done something
wrong when doing kldload snd_driver so will go through it again.

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Thank you but I did read the manual online, as always before posting.
I also have the printed versions, to support the docos. I just did not
find anything specific to this chip (understandable, not every chip
can be mentioned) nor did i find much about it in association with
freebsd when googling it, and was worrying it may not be supported, or
might take some knowledge i don't have, or is not listed, to configure
it. I will go back to googling.
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Re: Sound Configuration, Sony Laptop with ac97

2005-11-16 Thread Chris

Peter Clutton wrote:

On 11/17/05, Dev Tugnait [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Do a kldload snd_driver, then test your sound. This loads all the sound
drivers...then go from there



Thanks for that, I forgot to mention I had tried that to no avail. It
doesn't seem to recognise it. I will do it again so I can say exactly


Did you check dmesg? I thought I had a similar problem but the output 
for the driver that got loaded was simply not appearing on the console.


Chris
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Re: Sound Configuration, Sony Laptop with ac97

2005-11-16 Thread Dev Tugnait
Try opensound drivers http://opensound.com

On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 09:41 +1100, Peter Clutton wrote:
 On 11/17/05, Dev Tugnait [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Do a kldload snd_driver, then test your sound. This loads all the sound
  drivers...then go from there
 
 Thanks for that, I forgot to mention I had tried that to no avail. It
 doesn't seem to recognise it. I will do it again so I can say exactly
 what happens when i do that. I was wondering if anyone knew a specific
 kernel option, like snd_sbc that supports this chip, and what steps
 others have gone through with this chip. I may have done something
 wrong when doing kldload snd_driver so will go through it again.
 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
 Thank you but I did read the manual online, as always before posting.
 I also have the printed versions, to support the docos. I just did not
 find anything specific to this chip (understandable, not every chip
 can be mentioned) nor did i find much about it in association with
 freebsd when googling it, and was worrying it may not be supported, or
 might take some knowledge i don't have, or is not listed, to configure
 it. I will go back to googling.
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Re: BTX halt on laptop

2005-11-14 Thread Billy Tallis
On 11/13/05, Dinesh Nair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


 On 11/14/05 07:54 Billy Tallis said the following:
  I am trying to install FreeBSD 6 on a Toshiba Sat. Pro 445CDX laptop
  with no floppy drive. This laptop has a pentium processor and 16MB of
  ram.

 16MB of RAM, that doesnt sound like much.

The amount of RAM may limit the usability of the system, but it has
nothing whatsoever to do with the bootloader.

The real problem is that BTX never gets around to loading any kernel.
From the information I have found online, BTX does not seem to be as
reliable as loaders such as isolinux, which has no trouble on the
laptop. I just want to know if there are ways to boot a bsd kernel on
this laptop, which has no floppy and a cardbus ethernet nic.
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Re: BTX halt on laptop

2005-11-14 Thread Dinesh Nair



On 11/14/05 23:56 Billy Tallis said the following:

The real problem is that BTX never gets around to loading any kernel.

From the information I have found online, BTX does not seem to be as


what are the errors you're getting at the btx boot: prompt ?

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Re: BTX halt on laptop

2005-11-14 Thread Billy Tallis
On 11/14/05, Dinesh Nair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On 11/14/05 23:56 Billy Tallis said the following:
  The real problem is that BTX never gets around to loading any kernel.

 what are the errors you're getting at the btx boot: prompt ?

There are no errors at the boot: prompt. It is when I hit enter to
actually boot that I get a register dump followed by the message BTX
halted and the screeen blanks. From here, I have to press the reset
button. I never see the copyright messages from the kernel.

It seems that DMA can cause this problem, so I did what I could to
turn it off in the bios, to no avail.

Thanks
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Re: BTX halt on laptop

2005-11-13 Thread Dinesh Nair



On 11/14/05 07:54 Billy Tallis said the following:

I am trying to install FreeBSD 6 on a Toshiba Sat. Pro 445CDX laptop
with no floppy drive. This laptop has a pentium processor and 16MB of
ram. 


16MB of RAM, that doesnt sound like much.

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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 it crashes with a panic:
 -
 pcib0: intel 82443BX (440 BX) host to PCI bridge pcibus 0 on motherboard
 pir0: PCI Interrupt Routing Table: 8 Entries on motherboard
 pci0: PCI bus 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
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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 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: PCI
  bus on pcib0.
 
  dmesg on 4.11 reports:
  ohci0: AcerLabs M5237 (Aladdin-V) USB controller 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 /mfsroot 4423680 bytes at 0xc03edc14
  md1: Malloc disk
  Using $PIR table, 9 entries at 0xc00f01d0
  npx0: math processor on motherboard
  npx0: INT 16 interface
  pcib0: Host to PCI bridge on motherboard
  pci0: PCI bus on pcib0
  pcib1: Acerlabs M5247 PCI-PCI(AGP Supported) bridge at device 1.0 on pci0
  pci1: PCI bus on pcib1
  pci1: Trident model 8820 VGA-compatible display device at 0.0 irq 11
  ohci0: AcerLabs M5237 (Aladdin-V) USB controller 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: AcerLabs M5237 (Aladdin-V) USB controller 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: AcerLabs Aladin ATA66 controller port 0xeff0-0xefff at
  device 4.0 on pci0
  ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
  ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0
  pci0: unknown card (vendor=0x10b9, dev=0x5451) at 6.0
  isab0: AcerLabs M1533 portable PCI-ISA bridge at device 7.0 on pci0
  isa0: ISA bus on isab0
  chip1: AcerLabs M15x3 Power Management Unit at device 8.0 on pci0
  fxp0: Intel 82559 Pro/100 Ethernet 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: i82555 10/100 media interface 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: TI PCI-1410 PCI-CardBus Bridge irq 11 at device 16.0 on pci0
  pcic0: PCI Memory allocated: 0x8800
  pcic0: TI12XX PCI Config Reg: [pwr save][pci only]
  pccard0: PC Card 16-bit bus (classic) on pcic0
  pci_cfgintr_linked: linked (1) to hard-routed irq 11
  pci_cfgintr: 0:17 INTA routed to irq11
  pcic1: Toshiba ToPIC100 PCI-CardBus Bridge irq 11 at device 17.0 on pci0
  pcic1: PCI Memory allocated: 0x88001000
  pccard1: PC Card 16-bit bus (classic) on pcic1
  pci_cfgintr_linked: linked (2) to hard-routed irq 11
  pci_cfgintr: 0:17 INTB routed to irq11
  pcic2: Toshiba ToPIC100 PCI-CardBus Bridge irq 11 at device 17.1 on pci0
  pcic2: PCI Memory allocated: 0x88002000
  pccard2: PC Card 16-bit bus (classic) on pcic2
  pci0: unknown card (vendor=0x1179, dev=0x0805) at 18.0
  orm0: Option ROMs 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: Keyboard controller (i8042) at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0
  atkbd0: AT Keyboard flags 0x1 irq1 on atkbdc0
  kbd0 at atkbd0
  psm0: PS/2 Mouse irq 12 on atkbdc0
  psm0: model IntelliMouse, device ID 3
  vga0: Generic ISA VGA at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa-0xb on isa0
  sc0: System console 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 IC25N020ATCS04-0 [38760/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA66
  acd0: DVD-ROM TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-C2502 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: 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,
   then nothing.
   
   FreeBSD 4.11 boots well. However I don't want FreeBSD 4.11 ;)
   
   Any idea?
   
   Thank you,
   Laurent Debacker.
 

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 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  

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