From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Dec 22 11:30:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65B2B37B401 for ; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 11:30:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [64.49.215.141]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13A8E43EDE for ; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 11:30:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [64.49.215.141]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40EE88A3ABA; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 15:30:56 -0400 (AST) Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 15:30:56 -0400 (AST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Gregory Sutter Cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Vaio z505s Ethernet Adapter ... In-Reply-To: <20021221033524.GD526@klapaucius.zer0.org> Message-ID: <20021222152755.I67585-100000@hub.org> References: <1039037784.801.2.camel@vbook> <20021204232706.S36076-100000@hub.org> <20021206001142.GA29372@pir.net> <20021218025423.GA526@klapaucius.zer0.org> <20021217231448.W63985-100000@hub.org> <20021221033524.GD526@klapaucius.zer0.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Gregory Sutter wrote: > On 2002-12-17 23:16 -0400, "Marc G. Fournier" wrote: > > > > Is there a way of disabling the onboard ethernet so that FreeBSD doesnt' > > detected it on boot up? I have a Linksys PCCARD, but if I boot up, it > > seems that by detecting the fxp0 interface first, its causing a conflict > > with the Linksys ... > > I don't see how a built-in Intel ethernet could conflict with a > pccard. Regardless, have you checked your BIOS for an option to > disable it? That's the only place it would be. I'd check, but I > don't reboot the laptop much. Have checked ... :( Something I did notice on my disktop machine going from 4.7->5.0 was that my de controller had to be built into the kernel, it couldn't be loaded as a module, else it gave me similar errors ... Is there a relatively easy way that one can build a static kernel specific to a machine for booting off of floppy? I've never done such yet, but if the laptop is anything like my desktop, I'm suspecting that might fix my problem ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message