On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 11:29:26AM +0200, Henrik Borgh wrote: > 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).
Try 3.9, the Intel specific interrupt quirks now match on your chipset unlike 3.8.
