Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
Hello,
I have an old laptop, a Compaq Armada 1580DMT, with 16M RAM, 2GB hd,
floppy and CD-rom. It doesn't have built in networking, neither wired
nor wireless. It does have PC card slots. It has had FreeBSD
4.9-release installed a long time, and was recently upgraded to
4.11-release from CD, sucessfully.
However, I would like better pccard support, ie. 32 bit cardbus and
wireless network cards, so I would like to install 6.1-release (or
-stable) on it. However, when I try the 6.1-release CD (CD1), it
boots as far as loading the kernel, botting the kernel, and then
reboots again??
Try turning off all power management and plug-and-play support in the
BIOS and booting FreeBSD without ACPI. Try combinations of these three
things. Often older hardware has really broken APM/ACPI support that
makes FreeBSD do odd things.
Failing that, you may need to build a custom kernel with just the
minimum required to get yourself to a shell prompt. You can build a new
kernel with cardbus, usb and other extras after you get FreeBSD installed.
--
Darren Pilgrim
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