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Date:      Fri, 7 Mar 2003 23:03:37 +0100
From:      Gunnar Flygt <gunnar.flygt@sr.se>
To:        Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, "Sergey A. Osokin" <osa@freebsd.org.ru>
Subject:   Re: Compaq Evo N800c and FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <20030307220337.GA55414@sr.se>
In-Reply-To: <20030307174751.A13421@freebie.xs4all.nl>
References:  <20030307085934.GB49372@sr.se> <20030307112724.GJ424@freebsd.org.ru> <20030307123438.GA51261@sr.se> <20030307164501.GA53132@sr.se> <20030307174751.A13421@freebie.xs4all.nl>

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On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 05:47:51PM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 05:45:01PM +0100, Gunnar Flygt wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 01:34:38PM +0100, Gunnar Flygt wrote:
> > > On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 02:27:24PM +0300, Sergey A. Osokin wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 09:59:34AM +0100, Gunnar Flygt wrote:
> > > > > Sad to say that this machine works but not much more with
> > > > > 5.0-CURRENT. The whole pccard thing is not working at all.
> > > > > 
> 
> > > > What do you use for -CURRENT: OLDCARD or NEWCARD?
> > > 
> > > Right out of the box NEWCARD I guess. Haven't given it a thought
> > > > 
> > > > -- 
> > OK! So now I've also tested with OLDCARD. It isn't any better. Result:
> > pccard: card inserted, slot 0
> > 
> > And that's it. It doesn't detect the card or inform anything more.
> > 
> > So should I say that this brand new Compaq Laptop is NO GO for FreeBSD
> > CURRENT? Just to inform you, I've tried Linux RedHat 8 and Mandrake of
> > some brand (8.x probably) with even worse result. They don't even boot.
> > 
> > So it seems Compaq has done it. Being totally dedicated to M$
> 
> My guess: ACPI only laptop?

ACPI is totally unusable on this one. It panics in the middle of the
boot process, so I've been running it without ACPI since the release date
Now it runs CURRENT as of yesterday with no difference.

> 
> -- 
> |   / o / /_  _   		wilko@FreeBSD.org
> |/|/ / / /(  (_)  Bulte				

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