Dell Inspiron 8500

[Scott Penno]

Disabling eisa support upon boot will resolve the issues you have with the
i2500 and 4.x and presumably with 5.0R.

Scott.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor at gsoft.com.au>
To: <freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2003 11:48 PM
Subject: Dell Inspiron 8500


> Anyone run FreeBSD on such a beast?
>
> I have tried an i8000, and i8200 and they both work fine, but I haven't
tried
> an i8500 and I (work :) is thinking of purchasing one to dual boot, so I'd
be
> interested in success/failure reports.
>
> As a side note I have tried 4.6 and 5.0-Rel on an i2500 with no luck.
Seems to
> hang before/during probing a device and it isn't possible to break into
the
> debugger :(
>
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