Re: Wifi for Lenovo Laptop
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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org 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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Wifi for Lenovo Laptop
- 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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Wifi for Lenovo Laptop
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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org 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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org 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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Wifi for Lenovo Laptop
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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Wifi for Lenovo Laptop
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 --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. --- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Need recomendation on Laptop compatible with FreeBSD / PCBSD ?
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 -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpMHMzF8eXhJ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: HP DV4-2153 laptop
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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: using leds on laptop
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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: using leds on laptop
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. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: using leds on laptop
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 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: using leds on laptop
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 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org 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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: using leds on laptop
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. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org 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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: using leds on laptop
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? -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpvvD4VDOa8l.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: I want a laptop to connect to Internet via satelitte
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. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpJIjI3U46VT.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: I want a laptop to connect to Internet via satelitte
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? -- just plug that card and look what dmesg says. Usually marketing people don't even know if it work under anything else. You have to check ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Acer Aspire 4730Z laptop
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, Maciej Milewski ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: geli on exisitng laptop
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. -- Geoff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: geli on exisitng laptop
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 -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: geli on exisitng laptop
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. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpQex37aCU1L.pgp Description: PGP signature
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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! -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/geli-on-exisitng-laptop-tp22951183p22956085.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: geli on exisitng laptop
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. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpuCHJW02kGa.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: is there a laptop ?
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 ?
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... -- regards, Maciej Suszko. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: is there a laptop ?
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? -- Gary Dunn, Honolulu o...@aloha.com http://openslate.net/ http://e9erust.blogspot.com/ Sent from Slate001 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: is there a laptop ?
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 -- Paul ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: is there a laptop ?
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 -- Paul ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org 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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
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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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
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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. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Quoth Anne McClintock, University of Wisconsin: The decisions that really matter are made outside the democratic process. pgpeOo76LICRP.pgp Description: PGP signature
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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 -- regards, Maciej Suszko. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: is there a laptop ?
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. -- Ashish SHUKLA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
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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 pgpheKqJjP5PG.pgp Description: PGP signature
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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 Saifi KHAN. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
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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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
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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. -- Ashish SHUKLA ___ freebsd-mob...@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-mobile-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
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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. -- Ashish SHUKLA ___ freebsd-mob...@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-mobile-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
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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 Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
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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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: is there a laptop ?
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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: is there a laptop ?
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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: is there a laptop ?
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. -- Paul ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: is there a laptop ?
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 -- regards, Maciej Suszko. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: is there a laptop ?
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 :) -- regards, Maciej Suszko. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: is there a laptop ?
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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
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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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: is there a laptop ?
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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
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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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: is there a laptop ?
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 ] -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: is there a laptop ?
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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org 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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: is there a laptop ?
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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: is there a laptop ?
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. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: ober...@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD 7.1R on laptop
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. Thanks, ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: is there a laptop ?
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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: is there a laptop ?
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, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD 7.1R on laptop
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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: FreeBSD 7.1R on laptop
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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Wifi Card for laptop
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 -- Albert SHIH SIO batiment 15 Observatoire de Paris Meudon 5 Place Jules Janssen 92195 Meudon Cedex Heure local/Local time: Lun 24 nov 2008 11:11:03 CET ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wifi Card for laptop
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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wifi Card for laptop
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
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. -- Albert SHIH SIO batiment 15 Observatoire de Paris Meudon 5 Place Jules Janssen 92195 Meudon Cedex Heure local/Local time: Ven 21 nov 2008 02:35:39 CET ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wifi Card for laptop
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 :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wifi Card for laptop
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?? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wifi Card for laptop
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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wifi Card for laptop
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. -- Albert SHIH SIO batiment 15 Observatoire de Paris Meudon 5 Place Jules Janssen 92195 Meudon Cedex Heure local/Local time: Mar 18 nov 2008 23:50:01 CET ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wifi Card for laptop
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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: One Laptop Per Child
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 -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 We shouldn't elect a President; we should elect a magician. Will Rogers ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: One Laptop Per Child
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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fresh install - compaq laptop locks up on boot after timecounter TSC
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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fresh install - compaq laptop locks up on boot after timecounter TSC
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 -- Steve Franks, KE7BTE Staff Engineer La Palma Devices, LLC http://www.lapalmadevices.com (520) 312-0089 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fresh install - compaq laptop locks up on boot after timecounter TSC
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 -- Steve Franks, KE7BTE Staff Engineer La Palma Devices, LLC http://www.lapalmadevices.com (520) 312-0089 -- Steve Franks, KE7BTE Staff Engineer La Palma Devices, LLC http://www.lapalmadevices.com (520) 312-0089 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Quick mail advice / Laptop use
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. _ {Beto|Norberto|Numard} Meijome Produce great people, the rest will follow. Elbert Hubbard I speak for myself, not my employer. Contents may be hot. Slippery when wet. Reading disclaimers makes you go blind. Writing them is worse. You have been Warned. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Quick mail advice / Laptop use
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. snip -- Frank echo f r a n k @ e s p e r a n c e - l i n u x . c o . u k | sed 's/ //g' ---PGP keyID: 0x10BD6F4B--- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: tracking a stolen laptop?
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. Cheers, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: http://www.locolomo.org X.509 Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/8D03551FFCE04F0C.crt Key ID: 69:79:B8:2C:E3:8F:E7:BE:5D:C3:C3:B1:74:62:B8:3F:9F:1F:69:B9 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: tracking a stolen laptop?
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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hp or Toshiba laptop?
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 -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fwd: Re: hp or Toshiba laptop?
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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hp or Toshiba laptop?
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. -- Joel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: wlan on lowend laptop
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 :-) -- grtjs, albi gpg-key: lynx -dump http://scii.nl/~albi/gpg.asc | gpg --import ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: wlan on lowend laptop
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 :-) -- grtjs, albi gpg-key: lynx -dump http://scii.nl/~albi/gpg.asc | gpg --import ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: wlan on lowend laptop
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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB Mouse on Laptop
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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gmirror on a laptop.
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. -- -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gmirror on a laptop.
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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gmirror on a laptop.
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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Compaq Pressario 700 (laptop): X totally unconfigurable
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sound Configuration, Sony Laptop with ac97
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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sound Configuration, Sony Laptop with ac97
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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sound Configuration, Sony Laptop with ac97
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, ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sound Configuration, Sony Laptop with ac97
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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- _ FreeBSD - \ ^__^ \ (oo)\___ (__)\ )\/\ ||w | || || [ We've switched the bath sponge with a tribble. ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sound Configuration, Sony Laptop with ac97
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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sound Configuration, Sony Laptop with ac97
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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sound Configuration, Sony Laptop with ac97
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. -- Dev Tugnait [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BTX halt on laptop
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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BTX halt on laptop
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 ? -- Regards, /\_/\ All dogs go to heaven. [EMAIL PROTECTED](0 0)http://www.alphaque.com/ +==oOO--(_)--OOo==+ | for a in past present future; do| | for b in clients employers associates relatives neighbours pets; do | | echo The opinions here in no way reflect the opinions of my $a $b. | | done; done | +=+ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BTX halt on laptop
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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BTX halt on laptop
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. -- Regards, /\_/\ All dogs go to heaven. [EMAIL PROTECTED](0 0)http://www.alphaque.com/ +==oOO--(_)--OOo==+ | for a in past present future; do| | for b in clients employers associates relatives neighbours pets; do | | echo The opinions here in no way reflect the opinions of my $a $b. | | done; done | +=+ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD on old laptop, installer panic
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 06:55:57PM -0400, Zac Berkowitz wrote: I'm giving FreeBSD a go on my laptop, but I'm running into problems straight off the 5.4-STABLE installer. At first it would hang without an error. After I disabled power management in the bios I got a bit further - now it crashes with a panic: - pcib0: 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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Toshiba Portégé 4000 laptop
Okay the solution is to disable COM and Parallel ports in the bios. (Maybe also USB KB, and USB FDD). To access the bios you have to press ESC while the red TOSHIBA boot screen is displayed, then press F1. (I explain that becaused it's undocumented). With the default settings, I even got the 5.x kernel to panic. Really strange. Thanks for your help ;) On 4/23/05, Laurent Debacker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With FreeSBIE 1.1 (based on FreeBSD 5.3), it says: acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retrying (2 retries left) acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG timed out Then it stop/freezes. If I press the power button, it says acpi: suspend request ignored (not ready yet). Thanks. On 4/23/05, Laurent Debacker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried 5.4-RC3 with no ACPI, safe mode, and DEBUG mode, without success. DEBUG doesn't repport anything. 5.3 also crashes in safe mode, and no ACPI, freezes after pci0: 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
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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]