Re: Advice requested on modem WiFi for old notebook

2010-03-05 Thread Dave Anderson
On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, Brynet wrote: Dave wrote: Unfortunatly that resulted in a system that wouldn't boot. Well that is indeed quite unfortunate, sorry, but maybe you can send acpidump(8) output to dm...@? Done. 4.7 is near release, can you try a 4.7-beta snapshot? Will do. Dave --

Re: Advice requested on modem WiFi for old notebook

2010-03-05 Thread Dave Anderson
On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Dave Anderson wrote: On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, Brynet wrote: Dave wrote: Unfortunatly that resulted in a system that wouldn't boot. 4.7 is near release, can you try a 4.7-beta snapshot? Will do. If apm is disabled, the 3 March 2010 snapshot hangs at the same place in the boot

Re: Advice requested on modem WiFi for old notebook

2010-03-02 Thread Dave Anderson
On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Dave Anderson wrote: On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Brynet wrote: Maybe you can try using acpi? by disabling apm in UKC or via config(8)? Given the various mentions recently on this list, I should have thought of trying that even though it's not (to me) an obvious connection. I'll

Re: Advice requested on modem WiFi for old notebook

2010-03-02 Thread Brynet
Dave wrote: Unfortunatly that resulted in a system that wouldn't boot. Well that is indeed quite unfortunate, sorry, but maybe you can send acpidump(8) output to dm...@? 4.7 is near release, can you try a 4.7-beta snapshot? -Bryan.

Re: Advice requested on modem WiFi for old notebook

2010-03-02 Thread Brynet
I wrote: Well that is indeed quite unfortunate, sorry, but maybe you can send acpidump(8) output to dm...@? 4.7 is near release, can you try a 4.7-beta snapshot? -Bryan. One more thought, try updating the BIOS.. it seems Sony has released updates for your laptop.

Advice requested on modem WiFi for old notebook

2010-03-01 Thread Dave Anderson
I've inherited an old notebook (Sony Vaio PCG-FX120) and installed 4.6-release on it; while I haven't yet done extensive testing, most things (except the LoseModem, of course) seem to work (full dmesg below, and sent to dm...@openbsd.org). Now I want to add WiFi and a working modem to it and,

Re: Advice requested on modem WiFi for old notebook

2010-03-01 Thread Brad Tilley
On Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:41 -0500, Dave Anderson d...@daveanderson.com wrote: I've inherited an old notebook (Sony Vaio PCG-FX120) and installed 4.6-release on it; while I haven't yet done extensive testing, most things (except the LoseModem, of course) seem to work (full dmesg below, and sent

Re: Advice requested on modem WiFi for old notebook

2010-03-01 Thread Brynet
Dave wrote: Since I didn't see any not configured messages for cbb*, my guess is that this is at least partly functional; is that correct? What limitations does the couldn't map interrupt message imply for WiFi or modem use? (There don't seem to be any BIOS options which affect

Re: Advice requested on modem WiFi for old notebook

2010-03-01 Thread Dave Anderson
On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Brad Tilley wrote: On Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:41 -0500, Dave Anderson d...@daveanderson.com wrote: I've inherited an old notebook (Sony Vaio PCG-FX120) and installed 4.6-release on it; while I haven't yet done extensive testing, most things (except the LoseModem, of course)

Re: Advice requested on modem WiFi for old notebook

2010-03-01 Thread Dave Anderson
On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Brynet wrote: Dave wrote: Since I didn't see any not configured messages for cbb*, my guess is that this is at least partly functional; is that correct? What limitations does the couldn't map interrupt message imply for WiFi or modem use? (There don't seem to be