Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:38:06 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@crodrigues.org>, David Christensen <davidch@broadcom.com> Subject: Re: Broadcom NIC not recognized by FreeBSD? Message-ID: <200906120838.06973.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20090612040939.GA293@crodrigues.org> References: <20090610174211.GA78796@crodrigues.org> <5D267A3F22FD854F8F48B3D2B523819339EBA5F118@IRVEXCHCCR01.corp.ad.broadcom.com> <20090612040939.GA293@crodrigues.org>
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On Friday 12 June 2009 12:09:39 am Craig Rodrigues wrote: > On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 10:42:50AM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > > The bge driver recognizes the controller but fails to get the > > adapter's BAR memory mapped by the OS. Since it's only requesting > > 64KB it sounds like an OS issue. If you remove any other PCI > > devices in the system does the bge driver load? > > I cannot remove any devices from the system. > The problem is occurring on an Acer Aspire 5920 laptop > with no external devices plugged into it. You can try disabling ACPI. On some machines ACPI initialization inexpicably clears the I/O windows in certain PCI-PCI bridges and FreeBSD does not cope well with this case. -- John Baldwin
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