Re: FreeBSD release Acer Aspire 5735Z

Matthias Apitz <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <20111030152444.GA2073@tinyCurrent>
El día Sunday, October 30, 2011 a las 03:13:42PM +0100, Uffe Jakobsen escribió:

> 
> ...
> hangs forever (have waited an hour).
> This will go on until you remove the HDD then you can go into the BIOS 
> and degrade from SATA AHCI to plain IDE emu - then everything will work 
> and you can put the HDD back in.
> 
> It is as if the BIOS expects something to be present on the disk.
> It could be the disk recovery partition - I think that Acer calls it 
> something like D2D but even when disabling this option in the BIOS it 
> still hangs with SATA AHCI enabled.

Just for the records. I have an one year old Acer Aspire One D250,
running 9-CURRENT and never have had this HDD trouble. I just went to
the BIOS now (I think it was for very first time) and see:

D2D: enabled
SATA mode: AHCI

It boots FreeBSD normal from USB key or HDD.

The biggest problem was to get the Wifi card working with NDIS, because
the box came with Win7 pre-installed (which I wiped out before the 1st
boot) and I needed the bcmwl5 driver for NDIS.

Don't know if 10-CURRENT now has support for the Broadcom BCM4310 USB
Controller...

Thanks

	matthias
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