Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 04:21:51 -0800 (PST) From: Jeffrey Katcher <jmkatcher@yahoo.com> To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Latitude D800 (really Atheros support on T40) Message-ID: <20031127122151.75514.qmail@web41101.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <E1AP9LR-0000LL-EL@roam2.psg.com>
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--- Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote: > > As another data point, I'm running -CURRENT on my T40 specifically for > > Atheros support which works well on my built-in A/B card. > > aiiii! so i *did* screw up. blech. > > i will give it another go in some weeks when i have time again. > > randy > The major problems I had were: 1) hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range="1" stopped the panic on startup From: http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~trep/tsrT40freebsd.html 2) There was a CDROM corruption bug unknown when I was trying to install -current. It would boot, but the installation would fail for weird reasons. As a last shot, I installed 5.1-RELEASE (which didn't have the bug) and upgraded from there. It's fixed now, so a simple boot from snapshot should do the trick (or better yet, 5.2-BETA ISO). Jeff __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/
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