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Date:      Fri, 23 Jan 2004 13:56:16 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Muthu_T@Dell.com, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 5.2 on DELL m/c's
Message-ID:  <200401231356.16946.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <136A7C767A0679488C4642731C2186E00262D5@blrx2kmbgl301.blr.amer.dell.com>
References:  <136A7C767A0679488C4642731C2186E00262D5@blrx2kmbgl301.blr.amer.dell.com>

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On Friday 23 January 2004 12:27 am, Muthu_T@Dell.com wrote:
> I had installed 5.2 Release on couple of Dell machines.
> It works fine on all the systems. (but some dhclient error messages
> thrown on console often).
>
> In older machines (like PE4300) it works only if we disabled ACPI.
> But in new machines (PE1750, PE1650) it works fine by default(with
> ACPI).
>
> All RAID and BroadCom network drivers are working fine.
>
> So if anything needs to be tested on Dell Machines please let me know.
> I will do it in my spare time.
>
> But I cannot install 5.2 via USB CDROM. Anybody have any ideas?

That last might have been fixed (workaround for a BIOS bug) after 5.2 was 
released.  There's not a workaround to make it work though.  What kind of 
problems do you have on the older machines with ACPI?

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John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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