On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 10:13 -0500, Jim Pingle wrote: > Marten Vijn wrote: > > Support for the following devices seems not to be continued in 8.0 (and > > 7.2 and higher): > > > > - WRAP 1C > > - WRAP 2E (EOL) > > - ALIX 1C > > > > Both devices stopped booting as described in several postings and pr's. > > > > My question/suggestion to announce this in the > >> 7.2 and 8.0 release notes. (or better to fix the issues) > > Sorry for the late reply, but I may have a lead on some of these issues. > > NanoBSD is used for the embedded versions of pfSense now, and so we've > had a lot of users of ALIX/WRAP/etc giving it a workout. > > Take a look at some of the articles I've written so far based on > information myself and others have collected. > > http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/NanoBSD_on_WRAP > http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/ALIX_BIOS_Update_Procedure > http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Boot_Troubleshooting (First few items) > > It seems on the ALIX boards with VGA, you need to set a BIOS option for > power management to APM, which gets it past the freeze at devd. > > Also, we've been running kernels with the geode.c rev 1.11 mentioned > elsewhere in this thread for months patched against 7.2-RELEASE and it > works great for most ALIX models, but according to our users it does not > seem to offer any additional support for the models with a VGA BIOS > (LEDs and such still are not usable). Apparently they use an Award BIOS > and not TinyBIOS.
> Hope this helps, Yes it does, switching from ACPI to APM setting in the bios fixes it. thanks, Marten > Jim > -- http://www.voedselbankleiden.nl needs your help! http://martenvijn.nl http://bsd.wifisoft.org/nek/ http://opencommunitycamp.org OCC 2010 _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
