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? -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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