From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 17 8:34:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from darkstar.inetu.net (darkstar.inetu.net [207.18.13.192]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49F7E11141 for ; Wed, 17 Feb 1999 08:34:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kerberus@inetu.net) Received: from inetu.net (root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by darkstar.inetu.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA27392; Wed, 17 Feb 1999 11:34:25 GMT (envelope-from kerberus@inetu.net) Message-ID: <36CAA93E.1EFEFD73@inetu.net> Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 11:34:22 +0000 From: Kerberus Reply-To: kerberus@inetu.net Organization: INetU, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Cc: hosokawa@jp.FreeBSD.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Laptop problems Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a CTX EasyBook laptop with an AMD K6 3D 300Mhz CPU, 32mg memory, 20x cdrom, Toshiba MK2109 MAT 2 gig disk, 2 PCMCIA slots, 2 USB Ports, an Infrared controller, internal modem, serial port, paralell port, and a Neomagic video card, did i forget anything.... those are the specs. the hard drive is primary on the primary controller, the cdrom drive is primary on the secondary controller first when booting everything is found, but there is a long pause during when trying to decipher my cdrom controller, but it does get passed it finally after a few minits, also on the initial install while booting with the 2.2.8-RELEASE floppy it gave the following error and locked up solid, atapi1.0: invalid command phase, ireason=0xd0, status=d0, error=d0 this is debug information. I have to disable the cdrom in the bios, in order for sysinstall to run, and install from a dos partition. so finally i get it installed and re-enable the cdrom and boot, still long pause 2-3 minits, then finally a login, curiosity kills me i run sysinstall ( I know better ) locked up solid while probing for devices. Ok so how do i stop the pause, and prevent sysinstall from locking up on the cdrom so i can actually use the damn thing ??? and lastly since this is a laptop, i needed to patch with the PAO patch, to enable my NETGEAR ethernet card. ( it works fine on my other CTX ) so i know its not the card, but when it now boots it initializes then errors out with "/kernel: ed0: device timeout" the Ethernet PCMCIA card is a NETGEAR FA410TX this doesnt happen on the other laptop.... ok so im done i have three problems 1: how can i stop this damn long pause 2: how do i prevent sysinstall probing for devices and locking up or fix the cdrom error 3: get my ethernet card to stop timing out so i can use it Thanks in Advance, Almost Happy CTX Laptop PS the ps/2 mouse and Xwindows actually do run on this thing nicely, but i net either the network connectivity or a working cdrom to install any ports .....!!!! jeeeez!! go figure. -- OhhhNooooo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message