Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 08:58:33 -0700 From: John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com> To: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: 4.3-RC3 installation on Dell Latitude Message-ID: <15061.53417.163815.708009@hip186.ch.intel.com>
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Last night I downloaded and burned a 4.3-RC3 ISO and installed it from scratch on my Dell Latitude laptop. Knowing from RC1-RC2 experience, went into the kernel configuration editor upon boot and setup pcic0 to have "irq 10". At that point everything booted and worked just fine through the entire install (X not installed yet though, so I don't know how "smooth" that is going to be). As I expected, if I didn't manually assign 'irq 10' to pcic0 the laptop just wedges *solid* during boot. The last line printed (from recollection) is plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0 (which doesn't have anything to do with pccard but it's the last boot message printed before it wedges). What I'm wondering (Warner) is if during the initial "pcic: .*" probe messages if we could printout something to the effect of: pcic0: polling mode -- if your machine hangs use "boot -c" and assign an IRQ or maybe even pcic0: polling mode -- if your machine hangs see http://..../faq/<blah>; Even when the machine wedges I can hit scroll lock and PgUp to see other boot messages. It seems as if this would be an easy "fix" and might help new laptop users (and maybe new FreeBSD -and- laptop users) figure out what's going on a little quicker. One observation I made is that inside the CLI kernel config editor I was easily able to assign "irq 10" to pcic0. However, in the Visual editor when I hit RET to get into the params for pcic0, I couldn't assign an IRQ. I was given options to change the port, iomem, and "flags." Is this a bug or feature? -Jr -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | John Reynolds WCCG, CCE, Higher Levels of Abstraction | | Intel Corporation MS: CH6-210 Phone: 480-554-9092 pgr: 602-868-6512 | | jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com http://www-aec.ch.intel.com/~jreynold/ | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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