From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 20 19:23:11 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 0E9E111AED; Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:22:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kerberus@inetu.net) Received: from inetu.net ([209.122.155.155]) by darkstar.inetu.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA00627; Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:22:41 GMT (envelope-from kerberus@inetu.net) Message-ID: <36CF7C14.DFB5E34F@inetu.net> Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:23:01 -0500 From: Kerberus X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: WHATS WITH THE LIST Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ok im so soRry but i need to VENT, whats with the list here and freebsd-mobile... ive tried to get a bit of background on a pcmcia card that works in one ctx laptop but not another ctx laptop...... i get a device timeout error.... its seems like a simple fix, but Ive gotten no support or response what so ever..... and i really dont want to go back to linux on this darn thing i want FreeBSD on it..... 2.2.8-release i just need a bit of help. ANYBODY ANYBODY...???? PLEASE....! Dont make me BEG!!! -------SNIP-------- ORIGINIAL POST----------------- 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message