On 4/22/06, Henrik . <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have a Acer TravelMate 2400, on which i would like to install OpenBSD. The installation of 3.8-release went without any problems and most of the hardware also seems to work. But PCMCIA doesn't work.
The BIOS doesn't allow for any settings in regard to IRQ, so i can't configure it manually and i haven't been able to locate any workaround to access those options :(
I have just talket to "Carsten" from Acer's scandinavian support and he unfortinately confirmed this, as "this was there was no need for this in modern day Windows". Apparently they have deliberately removed this option and this "is done on almos every modern laptop". I personally find the last statement very hard to belive, but never the less this is the way Acer has chosen to go. I suscpect that the situation is pretty much the same on every laptop, equpped with a Insyde MobilePRO BIOS, which according to the manufacturer could be "Acer, Arima, ASE, Canon, Casio, Clevo, Compal, Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, Kapok, MiTAC, Sharp, Siemens-Nixdorf, Sotec, Symbol Technologies, and Twinhead" (http://www.insydesw.com.tw/en/Ps.asp?id=119). -- Regards Henrik
