On Sunday 01 July 2012 01:29:28 Erich Dollansky wrote: > Hi, > > On Saturday, June 30, 2012 10:11:31 PM Matthias Apitz wrote: > > El día Saturday, June 30, 2012 a las 01:49:58PM +0700, Erich Dollansky escribió: > > > Can you try FreeBSD 7.4 or 8.3? > > > > > > It is sad to say but some times support for older hardware gets cut out > > > for whatever reason. > > > > The IT guy of my company found this laptop in the attic and because > > it has no Wifi, nobody is interested in using it anymore. As I said, > > I could make use of it as a build machine and for this it must run > > CURRENT and no older versions. I will install the USB booted system to > > harddisk and hope when booted from disk and not from USB the keyboard is > > working. > > if 7.4 still runs but not anything after 8.0, it is most likely what I have > written. Some USB hardware is not supported anymore in 8 and later. > > I would install the old one just to see You will also know wat hwardware > is used there and how it is supported. > > This might be the faster route before starting debugging something which is > not there. > > Erich
Try to compare pciconf -lv and dmesg. --HPS _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
