Pci problem with laptop

TooManySecrets toomany at toomany.net
Tue Feb 22 06:47:04 PST 2005


Is this the right place to put this question? Or maybe is better to post
in freebsd-current?

Thank you.

El lun, 21-02-2005 a las 08:33 +0100, TooManySecrets escribió:
> Hi!
> 
> First, I will apologize about my bad english... sorry.
> 
> I've got an Acer Aspire 1605. NetBSD, OpenBSD and GNU/Linux run very
> well, and I can use the ethernet without any problem (a realtek 8139).
> But with FreeBSD 5.3 (also 4.11), I cannot use this.
> The load operation system run well, but is imposible to see the
> ethernet. I try with all boot options (with or without acpi, save mode,
> etc), but without any result.
> 
> Here is it one post of this question in freebsd-current the last year:
> 
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-current/2004-August/033350.html
> 
> And here another, when I was initiated the first thread about this:
> 
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-current/2004-April/026539.html
> 
> Please, you can consider me a stupid, but I need to run FreeBSD in this
> laptop; I'm not confortable with GNU/Linux, and I think if netbsd,
> openbsd or GNU/linux are capables to run in this hardware, FreeBSD also.
> 
> Thank you in advance.
> 
> Regards.
> 
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