2.8 Snapshot Hangs on a Inspirion 5000e

[Kevin Sindhu <kevin@tgivan.com>]

Hello,

I have been literally fighting to get OpenBSD installed on my notebook.
Thanks to few guyz (Peter Strömberg and Camiel Dobbelaar) who replied to
my earlier mail about getting it work on 2.7-STABLE. I did build a new
2.7 kernel, it recognized my cards, but X still didn't work..it starts
up, and the screen goes blank. The machine completely stops responding
to any input/ping, so I thought I'd give 2.8-SNAPSHOT a run.

Installing from floppy28C.fs from ftp.openbsd.org/pub/snapshots ,
(OpenBSD 2.8 RAMDISKC #80), it again fails and reboots with the message:

bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+(51) BIOS, date 08/24/00
apm0 at bios0: Power management spec v1.2
fatal page fault in supervisor mode
trap type 6 code 0 eip 3319 cs 38 eflags 10046 cr2 ea38 cpl 0
panic: trap

The Operating system has halted
Please press any key to reboot

I boot -c and disable apm0 and it boots ok and finds the 3Com575 and
Gold card Modem PCMCIA cards. I installed 2.8 GENERIC #398 through ftp,
and after reboot when I boot I get this:

bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+(4a) BIOS, date 08/24/00, BIOS 32 rev. 0 @
0xfd890
apm0 at bios0: Power management spec v1.2
kernel: page fault trap, code = 0
Stopped at 0x3319: kernel : page fault trap, code = 0
Stopped at _db_read_bytes+0x10: movb 0(%ecx), %al
ddb>print
e0285e58
ddb>examine
_db_read_bytes+0x10: 388018a

Well, boot back and disable apm0 in UKC, now the OS boots fine, but when
it gets to Starting Network, it hangs....I cannot ping the machine,
and/or reset it. The only way is via hard reset(or taking the battery
out, which is kindda getting loose now, as I am doing it every so
often).

I am still at loss to see what could be done now. I would appreciate all
help. If you like, I can send a dmesg from the 2.8-Floppy boot, as that
is only the one I can boot into.

Thanks In Advance

//Kevin
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