Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 03:01:39 +0000 From: Walt Roberts <wroberts@securenym.net> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Cc: =?iso-8859-1?q?Ra=FAl_Oyanedel_Westermeyer?= <royanwes@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD 7.1 on Presario v2000 laptop Message-ID: <200901080259.n082xtQ28540@anon.securenym.net> In-Reply-To: <883891.63947.qm@web90507.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <883891.63947.qm@web90507.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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I have this system running 7.0-RELEASE. Here is the problem. When freebsd boots it does a device probe looking for serial and parallel io ports. These ports do not exist on the V2000 notebooks. They have been removed and replaced with USB and Firewire ports. When FreeBSD is booting it probes for these devices and subsequently hangs when they don't answer. I'm not an internals guy, so I don't know exactly where it hangs, and much as I wish I had time to dig through the code, I don't. There is an easy and straightforward work around. Boot into the boot loader. When the bootmenu comes up select the loader menu. I think this is number 6. You will get an OK prompt. At this point you can disable the device probes for the paralle port and the serial ports. Type SHOW to list the parameters. Then at the OK disable the probes by SET as follows: OK set hint.sio.0.disabled 1 OK set hint.sio.1.disabled 1 OK set hint.sio.2.disabled 1 OK set hint.sio.3.disabled 1 This will disable the probes for those devices. I also disable the parallel port for this notebook. OK set hint.ppc.0.disabled 1 OK At this point you can now boot the system with the boot command: OK boot The system should boot normally from this point on. Once you get an operating system, go to /boot/device.hints and place these flags in the device.hints file. The system should read this file and boot without using the boot loader. By the way, I have been using this system for about 4 years with FreeBSD and KDE with a split disk for those few commercial programs I must use with the Redmond OS. It has been a tremendous workhorse around the world. I never had to do this with the i386 incarnation, only the AMD64. A second problem is the ndis driver for the wireless card. You can't just build a new ndis driver around the Broadcom drivers. The original BCWL5.sys and .inf don't work on AMD64 builds. You must use the 64 bit versions of these. I think they started making them with VISTA, but I'm not sure. I somehow found a the BCMWL564.sys somewhere and rebuilt the ndis wrapper and it works fine. If you need more information on where I got the driver, I'll see if I can remember where it came from. Again, this was not a problem with the i368 kernel, only the AMD64. On the plus side, I think the system runs much better with the AMD64 kernel than the i368 kernel. On Tuesday 06 January 2009 07:17:08 pm Raśl Oyanedel Westermeyer wrote: > Hi. > > I've join this mailing list to obtain some help for installing FreeBSD on > my laptop, a Compaq Presario V2000 series, model v2615LA. I have the > FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE DVD and I boot it without problem. However, when I try > to install it, it halts on "Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec", and de > CD/DVD drive stop to read the disc. I've tried with acpi disable option, > and safe mode too, with the same result. I“ve also tried to manually > disable acpi, with 'unset acpi_load' in the promt, but nothing. > > Any idea? > > I've added a hardware list on a text file attached to this mail for more > info. > > Thanks, > > Raśl. > > > ”Felices Fiestas! Enviale una tarjeta electronica gratis a tu familia > y amigos y deseales felices fiestas. http://yahoomorado.com/tarjetas/ -- Walter A. Roberts, MD Karmanos Cancer Institute Gershinson Radiation Oncology Center 3990 John R Detroit Michigan 48201
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