Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 10:55:30 +1000 From: "Scott Penno" <scott.penno@gennex.com.au> To: "Gerhard Sittig" <Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net> Cc: <freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron 2600. need help installing Message-ID: <001501c2293e$d80bac30$01050c0a@jupiter> References: <00c401c22832$ac17ec40$967ba8c0@dnadust> <000401c2286d$7490ace0$0128a8c0@jupiter> <20020711195156.R1494@shell.gsinet.sittig.org>
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When booting with a GENERIC kernel, the laptop locks up after displaying the following line: pci0: <unknown card> (vendor=0x8086, dev=0x2445) at 31.5 irq 5 After disabling/removal of eisa from the GENERIC kernel all is well and the device probing continues without a hitch. The next line to be displayed after the pci0 line above is: orm0: <Option ROMs> at iomem 0xc0000-0xcbfff,0xd0000-0xd3fff,0xd4000-0xd7fff on isa0 Scott. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerhard Sittig" <Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net> To: <freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 3:51 AM Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron 2600. need help installing > On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 09:56 +1000, Scott Penno wrote: > > > > I had a similar problem with my Dell Inspiron 2500 in that I couldn't boot > > the GENERIC kernel for whatever reason. I ended up compiling a customised > > kernel, loading that onto a set of boot floppies and everything was pretty > > smooth from there. > > Could you look at the diff between GENERIC and the kernel which > works for you to identify what actually made it work? This might > help other users. > > If it is the disabling "eisa" which helps for Toshiba there > probably is a need for a customized kernel. I don't remember > the ability to remove bus drivers on the fly. > > But if it's some device driver which disturbes or dazes other > hardware in its probe phase for absent hardware it could easily > be disabled by means of "boot -c" and USER_CONFIG. It is BTW > already recommended procedure to disable every driver you don't > have hardware for, especially the ISA ones which are not fully > Plug and Play capable like PCI is. This is why the appropriate > menu comes up when booting from install media. Although I don't > like the fact that the cursor is located on the "leave me alone, > I don't want to fiddle with this stuff" by default. > > > > i want to install FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE from cd. > > > i boot the cd (i tried the floppy an the same result) and freezes at this > > > point: > > > pci0: <unknown card> (vendor=08086, dev=0x2483) at 31,3 irq 10 > > > pci0: <unknown card> (vendor=08086, dev=0x2485) at 31,5 irq 10 > > > pci0: <unknown card> (vendor=08086, dev=0x2486) at 31,6 irq 10 <-- HERE > > Did you look these up in a PCI database? I'm not completely > certain but ISTR the http://www.yourvote.com/pci/ URL. > > > > i think irq 10 is "O2 Micro" bus. > > Vendor 0x8086 (does it ring a bell?) is Intel. I suspect this is > some on board component living in the chipset. Maybe you can > disable the feature in the BIOS or with some Intel tool. > > > virtually yours 82D1 9B9C 01DC 4FB4 D7B4 61BE 3F49 4F77 72DE DA76 > Gerhard Sittig true | mail -s "get gpg key" Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net > -- > If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above > ask your parents or an adult to help you. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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