Laptop update...
Ben Laurie
ben at algroup.co.uk
Sun Apr 20 06:09:19 PDT 2003
Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 12:25:07PM +0100, Ben Laurie wrote:
>>The onboard WiFi doesn't work (Intersil Prism2.5) - its recognised, but
>>it won't associate. An old Lucent WaveLAN (with recent flash) card works
>>fine, however.
>>
>
> I've got mine working by setting hw.cbb.start_memory=0xd8000 in
> /boot/loader.conf (or at run-time using sysctl(8)). This is on
> ThinkPad 600X.
I'll try that.
>>But most importantly, perhaps, when I do:
>>
>>portupgrade -Rra
>>
>>it almost never completes, because I get coredumps in cc (and
>>occasionally weirder symptoms, like illegal instructions). I know this
>>is usually attributed to RAM, but I've tried swapping that out - so,
>>what else can I fiddle with that might affect this (and the other
>>problems)? More info available on demand, of course.
>>
>
> Replace your RAM.
As I said, I've already done that, without change.
> That may explain the X crashes too. I got
> mine working without problems with 4.3.0, the NeoMagic driver
> has even grew the X-Video extension in this version!
X doesn't crash, it just won't come back once the screen has powersaved.
Cheers,
Ben.
--
http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.thebunker.net/
"There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he
doesn't mind who gets the credit." - Robert Woodruff
More information about the freebsd-current
mailing list