[ Spam - HIGH ] Re: Dell Inspiron 630m

[Baldur Gislason]

On a side note, I tried booting freebsd without acpi and now I see that when
I configure bfe0 I get an interrupt storm on irq9 (bfe0 and uhci2).

Baldur

On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 01:24:01PM +0000, Baldur Gislason wrote:
> Funny that, I also had this problem on an Inspiron 1000 albeit a bit different there,
> on the 1000 the system would not lock up when I ifconfigged the interface up without
> a network cable plugged in but it would lock up once the cable was plugged in.
> I've ran both NetBSD and Linux on the 1000 without problems.
> I currently have most things working on the 630m except the fast ethernet and the sound.
> I haven't tried power saving yet. There's also an MMC/SD slot that isn't supported but that
> is of low concern to me. The sound quality on these dells isn't great either.
> The wireless card works and X11 works with xvideo after upgrading to X.org 6.9.0
> I hope to do some more testing tonight.
> 
> Baldur
> 
> On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 01:06:26PM +0000, Phillip Neumann wrote:
> > i got a 630m running,releng_6
> > 
> > never saw the problem you are describing.
> > lan works greate.
> > 
> > the only thing is, ACPI doest work. i havnt had the chance to have fun
> > with DSDT and such things jet.
> > 
> > saludos,
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > El mié, 29-03-2006 a las 15:40 +0000, Baldur Gislason escribió:
> > > I'm just curious if anyone has a Dell Inspiron 630m or similiar running FreeBSD.
> > > I have one running 6.0-RELEASE but compiling -STABLE now.
> > > I had a problem I've observed before on other inspirons, when I configured the broadcom 4401
> > > fast ethernet interface up the machine sort of locked up.
> > > The link light on the ethernet port goes out and the machine is locked up to the point
> > > that I can switch virtual consoles and I can type in characters on the console where
> > > I ran ifconfig or dhclient. Other than that I don't seem to be able to do anything
> > > but hold the power button for 4 seconds to power off.
> > > Any ideas?
> > > 
> > > Baldur
> > > 
> > > 
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