FreeBSD-9.1 would not boot on pentium3 laptop

Mikhail T. mi+thun at aldan.algebra.com
Wed Feb 6 14:23:41 UTC 2013


On 06.02.2013 02:13, YongHyeon PYUN wrote:
>> Disabling "Wake on LAN" in the BIOS solved this problem. Now xl0 is seen
>> >and functional. Solved.
> Because I added WOL support xl(4) in the past I'm interested in
> knowing whether that change broke your controller when BIOS enables
> WOL.
I can not reproduce this -- after enabling WOL in BIOS, both kernels 
(mine and 9.1-R GENERIC) still see xl0 now.

Maybe, it is a BIOS issue -- I'm using Lattitude's BIOS version A02, but 
the last update from Dell before they stopped supporting the laptop is A23.

Yours,

    -mi



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