From owner-freebsd-ia64 Tue Dec 17 18: 9:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 589A637B401 for ; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 18:09:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from kayak.xcllnt.net (209-128-86-226.BAYAREA.NET [209.128.86.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8A5943EA9 for ; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 18:09:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@xcllnt.net) Received: from dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net [192.168.4.201]) by kayak.xcllnt.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBI29IrT083219; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 18:09:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@kayak.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: from dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBI2A2Wg001645; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 18:10:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: (from marcel@localhost) by dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gBI2A2Ra001644; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 18:10:02 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 18:10:02 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar To: Arun Sharma Cc: ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can freebsd support intel ee870 chipset? Message-ID: <20021218021001.GB1583@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> References: <3FAD1088D4556046AEC48D80B47B478C0101F551@usslc-exch-4.slc.unisys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 05:32:31PM -0800, Arun Sharma wrote: > > I could boot to the sysinstall screen with the RC1 CD on this > platform (Tiger), but then the keyboard didn't work for me. Excellent! (the sysinstall part, not the keyboard part :-) > The platform requires a USB keyboard driver (doesn't have a PS/2 > port). It looks like the ia64 GENERIC kernel doesn't have usb or ukbd > enabled. But the i386 GENERIC kernel *does* have it enabled. Is it > possible to enable it in ia64 GENERIC kernel before the 5.0 release ? Good info. I disabled USB because it caused the machine to hang, but if you loaded it as a KLD after booting, everything was fine. It seems USB is too important to leave out. I'll look into it, -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ia64" in the body of the message