From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 24 8: 5: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hog.ipng.nl (hog.colo.bit.nl [193.109.122.227]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0531737B403 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 08:04:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by hog.ipng.nl (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 6499F457; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 15:04:55 +0000 (GMT) Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 17:04:55 +0200 From: Pim van Pelt To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: DP1 + acpi(4) + wi(4) Message-ID: <20020624150455.GA48563@hog.ipng.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hoi, On some particular laptop, which has predominantly SiS chips built in, I have been trying to install FreeBSD ever since 4.0 came out. Every time, the wavelan NIC I own (a Buffalo, Prism-I) gets detected by the pccardd fine, inserted and the MAC adres is found. Any time I try to use the NIC, eg with ``dhclient wi0'', the machine responds with periodic ``wi0: watchdog timeout'' messages. With the 5.0 DP1 version of the kernel, this was no longer the case and the wavelan works like a charm. However, ACPI does not really want to do its thing, and I get errors, slowing the machine to a halt every now and again, even hanging the kernel completely. I thought about disabling ACPI (in /boot/loader.rc, unset acpi_load) and then of course the machine is stable, but the ``wi0: watchdog timeout'' pesters me once more :) Any ideas on which sub-system of the ACPI driverset is responsible for the PCMCIA card working, so I can enable exactly that and keep the rest out of harms way ? Oh, and don't try to run ``acpiconf -s5'' to try and put your laptop to sleep, it will copy memory to disk, apparently starting at cyl/sect 0/0, overwriting your slice happily (thanks, Mitsuru) groet, Pim -- __________________ Met vriendelijke groet, /\ ___/ Pim van Pelt /- \ _/ Business Internet Trends BV PBVP1-RIPE /--- \/ __________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message