Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 00:45:44 -0500 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, Benno Rice <benno@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Any success stories with Dell Inspiron 4100? Message-ID: <01112600454400.00754@i8k.babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20011126123534.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <XFMail.20011126123534.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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On Sunday 25 November 2001 21:05, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On 26-Nov-2001 Greg Lehey wrote: > > I don't know about the 4100, but other members of the Inspiron family > > tend to work pretty well. > > Hmm.. I have access to an i2500 and it hangs on boot with FreeBSD 4.4 (in > probe). > I forget exactly where, but I should be getting around to filling a bug > report sometime soon about it :) Does it ever recover? This happened to a friend of mine with an i8000 (though it never happens with mine), but only *some* of the time. He built a minimal kernel (that is, one that only includes hardware that he actually has) (I can send you mine if you want as a starting place; it should be pretty close) and now all is fine as it's only probing for devices that are actually present.. > > --- > Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer > for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au > "The nice thing about standards is that there > are so many of them to choose from." > -- Andrew Tanenbaum > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) http://www.babbleon.org -------> Free Dmitry Sklyarov! (let him go home) <----------- http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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