From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun May 13 0:29:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.mmcable.com (fe2.rdc-kc.rr.com [24.94.163.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0924E37B424 for ; Sun, 13 May 2001 00:29:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jbaxter@mmcable.com) Received: from mmcable.com ([65.26.204.59]) by mail2.mmcable.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.537.53); Sun, 13 May 2001 02:29:49 -0500 Message-ID: <3AFDF1C0.B671FCAE@mmcable.com> Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 02:30:25 +0000 From: John Baxter X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: what worked for me Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org i wish to thank all of those that answered my postings. i finally have a working os (after more than 1 month and a multitude of attempts with netbsd and openbsd with varing degrees of success). just so it gets posted again, because it was very had for me find these solutions. i have a prostar 6682 (marked as a model 660). my laptop's touchpad does not return the expected response to the probe at boot time, so the touch pad is not recognized. the answer was to add 0x400 as a flag for the ps/2 mouse settings configuration during installation (it can also be set in /boot/kernel.conf if you know the correct settings). i use the sysmouse driver with XF86Free. any other settings and my touchpad is useless. i use the fa_select utility for my Netgear FA410TX rev. D pcmcia enthernet card (i am hoping for a better solution but it works as advertised). i removed the references in the kernel.conf to the ne0 card from the install configuration. this was causing irq 9 to be assigned to a non-existant device. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message