Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 10:10:54 +1000 From: "Scott Penno" <scott.penno@gennex.com.au> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, <freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron 8500 Message-ID: <004101c3079a$7a631e20$0528a8c0@saturn> References: <200304202318.20956.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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Disabling eisa support upon boot will resolve the issues you have with the i2500 and 4.x and presumably with 5.0R. Scott. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: <freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org> Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2003 11:48 PM Subject: Dell Inspiron 8500 > Anyone run FreeBSD on such a beast? > > I have tried an i8000, and i8200 and they both work fine, but I haven't tried > an i8500 and I (work :) is thinking of purchasing one to dual boot, so I'd be > interested in success/failure reports. > > As a side note I have tried 4.6 and 5.0-Rel on an i2500 with no luck. Seems to > hang before/during probing a device and it isn't possible to break into the > debugger :( > > -- > Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer > for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au > "The nice thing about standards is that there > are so many of them to choose from." > -- Andrew Tanenbaum > GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mobile-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
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